Coalition’s goal: end homelessness in the next decade Ridgeview
By Hillary Borrud
The Bulletin

REDMOND — Kyle Holdsworth
graduated from Redmond High
School in June and, like many
young people his age, the 18-yearold plans to attend college.

His senior year, however, was
anything but typical. A year ago, he
became homeless. It took a couple
of months for him to find out about
The LOFT shelter for homeless
and runaway youths in Bend.
“I was homeless for about two

months before I found the LOFT,
and I was still trying to attend
school,” Holdsworth said. For
awhile, he said, he “couch-surfed.”
“You go from friend to friend, until you’ve exhausted that resource.”
Local government officials and

nonprofits hope to improve and expand services for youths like Holdsworth and the rest of the homeless
population in Central Oregon. Tuesday, they launched a plan to end
homelessness in the next decade.
See Homeless / A5

• Redmond’s new high school
placed in 4A; will be 6th team
in the Central Oregon league

70TH ANNIVERSARY

5 myths
about
Pearl Harbor

By Erik Hidle
The Bulletin

The Associated Press file photo

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.”
And that day, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, has indeed lived
in infamy for 70 years. Yet even as the memory of the attack has lasted, so have the misperceptions surrounding it.
On this anniversary, here are a few worth dispelling.

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The government
had no knowledge
of a potential
attack before
Dec. 7, 1941.

On Dec. 7, Japan
attacked only
Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. military
responded
quickly and
decisively.

JapaneseAmericans were
the only citizens
rounded up after
Pearl Harbor.

The attack
convinced the
public that the
U.S. should enter
World War II.

Within 48 hours
of the attack, more
than 1,000 JapaneseAmericans, German-Americans and
Italian-Americans, all
considered “enemy
aliens,” were detained
by the FBI. By the end of
the war, the government
had interned, detained
or restricted the movements of hundreds of
thousands of people.
Though JapaneseAmericans made up the
majority of the roughly
120,000 people sent
to internment camps,
more than 11,000 German-Americans were
interned as well. An estimated 600,000 ItalianAmericans were considered “enemy aliens” and
kept under restrictions.
Foreign diplomats from
Germany, Japan and
Italy were also rounded
up and held.
The Japanese,
though, were dealt with
most harshly. Days after
Dec. 7, Attorney General
Francis Biddle ordered
all Japanese-Americans
to surrender their cameras and broadcasting
devices to local police
stations. Their bank
accounts were frozen,
and they faced travel restrictions, among many
other limitations. The
FBI and the Army called
for every Japanese individual to be incarcerated
for the duration of the
“emergency.” However,
Biddle urged Roosevelt
to show restraint.

The attack persuaded
Americans to support
entering just part of the
war, not all of it. Before
Pearl Harbor, the United
States was largely isolationist, and there was
almost no call to get involved in another European war. The America
First movement, backed
by public figures including Charles Lindbergh
and Walt Disney, was
growing in popularity. Its supporters had
announced plans to
participate in every congressional race in 1942
and support the most
isolationist candidate,
Republican or Democrat. After the attack, the
America First movement
came to a halt.
In the papers of
Secretary of War Henry
Stimson, archivists discovered a draft declaration of war against Japan, Germany and Italy
for Roosevelt to deliver
to Congress on Dec. 8.
But that was scrapped,
and FDR asked for
a declaration of war
against only Japan.
The attack on Pearl
Harbor awoke America
from its isolationist
slumber and bolstered
its charge into the Pacific
war, but it did not spur
entry into the European war. That happened
when Germany and
Italy declared war on the
United States on Dec. 11,
compelling Roosevelt to
respond in kind — thus
committing America to a
world war.

Beyond the obvious
signs of Japan’s increasing aggression — including its sinking of an
American naval vessel
in the Yangtze River and
its alliance with fascist
Italy and Nazi Germany
— various specific war
warnings had been sent
by Washington to military commanders in the
Pacific for some days
before Dec. 7.
The War Department
had been intercepting
and analyzing secret
cables between Tokyo
and the Japanese Embassy in Washington
and thought at one point
the Japanese would
attack Hawaii on Nov.
30. A Hawaii newspaper
even warned of that in a
blaring headline.
On Dec. 4, Roosevelt
received a confidential
memo from the Office of
Naval Intelligence detailing Japanese espionage
efforts. The possible
outbreak of war is mentioned, followed shortly
by this: “In anticipation
of possible open conflict
with this country, Japan
is vigorously utilizing
every available agency
to secure military,
naval and commercial
information, paying particular attention to the
West Coast, the Panama
Canal and the Territory
of Hawaii.”
These were just general warnings, however,
and a huge Japanese armada was able to travel
thousands of miles to
Hawaii undetected.

Though the attack
on Pearl Harbor was
the most crippling
and caused the most
American losses, Japanese forces also struck
the Philippines, Wake
Island, Guam, Malaya,
Thailand and Midway
that day. The Philippines campaign lasted
until January 1942,
when the country fell
to the Japanese. In the
Pacific, Wake Island
was shelled by Japanese aircraft and ships
until Dec. 11, when the
Japanese attempted
the first of two invasions before the island
finally fell.
Guam was bombed
and later invaded
on Dec. 10. Malaya
(now Malaysia) was
invaded and fell early
the following year. The
invasion of Thailand
lasted only a few hours
before that country
surrendered in December 1941. Other than
Hawaii, Midway was
the only target on Dec.
7 not to fall under Japanese control.
Those days were
among the darkest of
the Pacific war. Britain
lost two huge battleships in a matter of
minutes to aerial bombardment, and Winston
Churchill wrote in his
memoirs that their sinking was his lowest point
of the entire war. The
Japanese actions that
day effectively crippled
British naval strength in
the Pacific.

For months after
Pearl Harbor, the United
States suffered defeat
after defeat in the Pacific theater. Rumors
swept the country on
Dec. 8 that the Navy
was in pursuit of the
attacking Japanese
fleet, but these were
false. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in command
of the Army garrison
in the Philippines, sent
Roosevelt a telegram
pleading for naval assistance, including
for U.S. subs to target
the Japanese vessels
delivering troops, but
the requests went unanswered. There was little
assistance to offer the
beleaguered general,
and the Philippines fell.
The first significant
U.S. offensive did not
come until February
1942, when the Pacific
fleet began attacks on
the Gilbert and Marshall
islands.
Before that, the first
engagement of Japanese and U.S. forces
actually resulted in an
American victory. Several hours before the air
attack on Pearl Harbor,
Japan deployed twoman submarines, or
“midget subs,” against
the base. The USS
Ward, a destroyer on
patrol outside the harbor, made first contact
with a Japanese sub. It
sank the vessel, resulting in two Japanese
casualties and no U.S.
losses.

— Special to The Washington Post from Craig Shirley, author of “December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World”

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REDMOND — Redmond’s new high
school will join the Intermountain Conference next year, creating a six-team league
for athletics and activities
across Central Oregon.
The executive board of Inside
the Oregon School Activi- • Intermountain
Conference
ties Association finalized
at a glance, A5
the decision Monday night,
placing the new Ridgeview
High in Class 4A, moving
Redmond High School from 6A to 5A and
putting the schools in the IMC with Crook
County, Bend, Mountain View and Summit.
The conference’s new structure starts
with the 2012-13 school year.
“This is what we expected to hear,”
said Brent Walsh, athletic director for the
Redmond School District. “We actually
wanted Redmond High School to go down to
4A as well. While we will have the students
for a 5A school next year, we expect in two
years that both of our high schools will have
the student numbers of 4A schools.”
In its first year of operations, Ridgeview
will not offer senior classes. Walsh said once
all four grades are offered at both schools,
each will have enrollment lower than 870,
which is the cutoff between 4A and 5A
classifications.
See Conference / A5

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Peggy Curtis
spent Thanksgiving week out of work, the
first layoff in her 37 years making cigarettes
in a Reidsville, N.C., factory. Instead of moping, she went shopping for holiday decorations at Home Depot.
“The economy is tough, but that’s not going to stop me,” said Curtis, 58, whose $600
spree so far includes enough lights to illuminate nine Crape Myrtle shrubs. “I love
Christmas.”
With little to cheer about these days — 8.6
percent unemployment, fears of European
contagion — Americans are splurging on
LED lights, 16-foot-tall inflatable Santas and
pre-decorated artificial trees. This year U.S.
consumers will spend $6 billion on decorations, the most in at least seven years, according to the National Retail Federation,
which began tracking the data in 2005.
See Decorations / A5

Saundra Sovick / The Jonesboro (Ark.) Sun

Holiday decoration sales are projected to
climb this year. More than 68 percent of
U.S. consumers will indulge this year, according to one report. That would be the
highest level in three years.

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Sources: “How to Find a Habitable Planet,” by James Kasting;
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Astronomy & Astrophysics;
“Life in the Universe,” by Jeffrey O. Bennett and Seth Shostak; NASA

By Dennis Overbye
New York Times News Service

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
What does Goldilocks want?
At least four times in the
past few years, astronomers
have announced they had
found planets orbiting other
stars in the sweet spot known
as the habitable zone — not
too hot, not too cold — where
water and thus, perhaps, life
are possible. In short, a planet
fit to be inhabited by the biochemical likes of us, a socalled Goldilocks planet.
“Sooner or later, Kepler will
find a lukewarm planet with a
size making it probably Earthlike,” said Geoffrey Marcy of
the University of California,
Berkeley, who spends his time
tracking down candidates
identified by NASA’s Kepler
telescope. “We’re no more
than a year away” from such
a discovery, he said.
Sara Seager, a planetary
astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
put it this way: “We are on the
verge of being those people
who will be remembered.”
All this has brought to the
fore a question long debated
by geologists, chemists, paleontologists and cosmologists turned astrobiologists,
namely: What does life really
need to get going, flourish and
evolve on some alien rock?
The answer depends on
who we expect to be living
there. We might dream of
green men with big eyes, ants
with hive minds, or even cuddly octopuses as an antidote
to cosmic loneliness; but what
we are most likely to find, a
growing number of scientists
say, is alien pond slime.
“If you reran Earth’s history, how many times would
you get animals?” asked Donald Brownlee, an astronomer
at the University of Washington. He and a colleague, the
paleontologist Peter Ward,
made a case that we live on
a lucky planet in their 1999
book, “Rare Earth.”
Even warm and wet is a
rare condition, however, occurring now on only one of

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Planet discovered in the sweet spot
WASHINGTON — A newly discovered planet is eerily similar
to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems
to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It’s a bit too
big.
The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call
the Goldilocks zone, that hard-to-find place that’s not too hot,
not too cold, where water, which is essential for life, doesn’t
freeze or boil. And it has a shopping mall-like surface temperature of near 72 degrees, scientists say.
The planet’s confirmation was announced Monday by NASA
along with other discoveries by its Kepler telescope, which was
launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009.
That’s the first planet confirmed in the habitable zone for
Kepler, which had already found Earthlike rocky planets elsewhere. Twice before astronomers have announced a planet
found in that zone, but neither has been as promising.
“This is a phenomenal discovery in the course of human history,” Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, one
of the pioneers of planet-hunting outside our solar system, said
in an email. “This discovery shows that we Homo sapiens are
straining our reach into the universe to find planets that remind
us of home. We are almost there.”
The new planet — named Kepler-22b — shares key aspects
with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of our sun and
at just about the same distance. The planet’s year of 290 days
is even close to ours. It likely has water and rock.
The only trouble is the planet’s a bit big for life to exist on the
surface. The planet is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It could
be more like the gas-and-liquid Neptune with only a rocky core
and mostly ocean.
“It’s so exciting to imagine the possibilities,” said Natalie
Batalha, the Kepler deputy science chief.
Floating on that “world completely covered in water” could
be like being on an Earth ocean, and “it’s not beyond the realm
of possibility that life could exist in such an ocean,” Batalha
said in a phone interview.
Because its size implies that it’s closer to Neptune in composition than Earth, “I would bet my telescope that there is no
hard, rocky surface to walk on,” Marcy said.
Kepler can’t find life itself, just where the conditions might
be right for it to thrive. And when astronomers look for life
elsewhere, they’re talking about everything from microbes to
advanced intelligence that can be looking back at us.
The planet is 600 light-years away. Each light year is 5.9 trillion miles. It would take a space shuttle about 22 million years
to get there.
— The Associated Press

the eight official planets in our
solar system and three of the
several dozen moons. Mars
was once wet, but it is now a
desert. And after billions of
dollars spent exploring Mars
and the remains of space
probes littering the planet, we
still do not know if a single microbe ever lived there.
But nobody really knows
how rare or common are plan-

ets like Earth and its brand of
life.

Looking for ‘just right’
A blue-ribbon committee of
chemists convened by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that there was only one
ironclad requirement for life,
besides energy: a place warm
enough for chemical reactions
to go on. So, determining how

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Smaller, dimmer
stars have relatively
small habitable zones
but are numerous
and long lived. About
90 percent of stars
are K or M class.
Class K, G and F stars
are thought to be the
best candidates for
harboring habitable
planets.

TIDAL LOCKING
Locked to a star
DISTANCE
Planets left of this line tend
to orbit with one side always
facing a star, a process called
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Earth Mars
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hot for surface life, and
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The sun is a class G star,
a type that makes up
about 7 percent of all
stars. Earth orbits near the
inner edge of the habitable
zone, and Venus and Mars
may come close,
depending on optimistic
or conservative estimates
for the habitable zone.

Large class F stars are also rare,
making up only 2 percent of all stars.
But with a lifetime of several billion
years, the stars provide ample time
for life to form, making them tempting
targets for planet hunters.

Massive class A stars are about 20
times brighter than the Sun, with
wide habitable zones. But the stars
are rare and short-lived, leaving only
a billion years for orbiting planets to
form and for life to develop.

1 Astronomical Unit (A.U.)
Distance from Earth to Sun

Earth
Venus
Mercury

At right, halos show
the relative sizes of
habitable zones
around different
classes of stars.

An aging sun
Stars brighten
with age, and as
the Sun ages, its
habitable zone
will continue to
shift outward. In
several billion
years Earth’s
water will
evaporate away.

Santa to his Unionville yard
early Saturday in a trash bag
that also contained the money
and note.
He says the anonymous
note makes it clear that the
person who returned the Santa wasn’t the thief who took it
and two 6-foot-tall penguins
this past week.

The penguins are still
missing.
The typed note states that:
“Returning your property is
the right thing to do, and apologies for the thief who took it
in the first place.”
McClaren says he plans
to use the $100 to buy more
decorations.

IN HISTORY
Highlights: In 1941, the
Imperial Japanese navy
launched a surprise attack on
the U.S. Navy base at Pearl
Harbor in Hawaii as part of a
plan to pre-empt any American
military response to Japan’s
planned conquest of Southeast
Asian territories; the raid,
which claimed some 2,400
American lives, prompted the
United States to declare war
against Japan the next day.
In 1972, America’s last moon
mission to date was launched
as Apollo 17 blasted off from
Cape Canaveral.
Ten years ago: Taliban forces
abandoned their last bastion
in Afghanistan, fleeing the
southern city of Kandahar.
Five years ago: President
George W. Bush gave a
chilly response to the Iraq
Study Group’s proposals for
reshaping his policy, objecting
to talks with Iran and Syria,
refusing to endorse a major
troop withdrawal and vowing
no retreat from embattled U.S.
goals in the Mideast.
One year ago: WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange
surrendered to authorities in
London, where he was jailed
for nine days before being freed
on bail as he fought extradition
to Sweden for questioning in a
rape investigation.

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UNIONVILLE, Ind. — A
southern Indiana man has
gotten an early Christmas gift:
A 16-foot-tall inflatable Santa
Claus stolen from his yard has
been returned with $100 and a
note of apology.
Jason McClaren said someone returned the deflated

warm a planet’s atmosphere
keeps it — through assumptions, calculations or just plain
guesses — has been crucial in
reaching a verdict about its potential habitability.
This is how it has gone with
the potential Goldilocks planets
orbiting Gliese 581, a small cool
red star about 20 light-years
from here in the constellation
Libra that has been at the center
of exoplanet fantasies and speculation for the past few years.
Depending on whom you talk
to, it has five or six planets, three
of which have at one time or another been claimed to be habitable. (Wilhelm Gliese, for whom
the star was named, was a Danish astronomer who cataloged
nearby stars, most of them dim
red dwarfs like this one.)
The first in what would become a chain of potential Goldilocks planets, identified in 2007,
was close enough within the
small star Gliese 581’s shrunken
habitable zone to have a warm
surface. But astronomers took
a closer look at Gliese 581c, as
it is called, and concluded that
if the planet’s geology and atmosphere resembled those of
Earth, it would be a stifling
greenhouse, no place to set solar
sail for.
In September, what some astronomers called the best and
smallest Goldilocks candidate
yet was announced. About 3.6
times as massive as the Earth, it
circles a faint orange star in Vela
known as HD 85512 at a distance of some 24 million miles,
about a quarter of the Earth’s
distance from the Sun. The star
was also cataloged by the Danish astronomer as Gliese 370.
Kaltenegger and her colleagues
calculated that this planet would
be habitable if it had an Earthtype geology and at least 50 percent cloud cover.
The brute reality, astronomers admit, is that even if there
are thousands or millions of
habitable planets in the galaxy,
only a few hundred of them are
within range of any telescope
that will be built in the conceivable future.

• Rod Blagojevich, the former
governor of Illinois, is expected
to speak on his own behalf
before the federal judge who
will decide his sentence for 18
felony corruption convictions,
including trying to sell or trade
the Senate seat that President
Barack Obama left behind
when he moved to the White
House, A3
• The Republican Jewish
Coalition hosts a Republican
presidential forum in
Washington, D.C.
• House Republicans will hold
a closed-door meeting to
discuss a Democratic plan to
extend a payroll tax reduction,
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• Greece’s Parliament votes on
an austerity budget, following
a five-day debate. The majority
of lawmakers is expected to
vote for the new budget, which
has been backed by all three
parties in the country’s new
coalition government.
• NATO foreign ministers meet
in Brussels to discuss the
war in Afghanistan and other
ongoing operations.
• The Senate Homeland
Security and Governmental
Affairs subcommittee holds
a hearing on homegrown
terrorism, focusing on the
threat to military communities
inside the United States.

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drunk driving arrest
WASHINGTON — FAA administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday as head of the
Federal Aviation Administration following his arrest over
the
weekend
on charges of
drunken driving.
Babbitt was
about halfway
through a fiveBabbitt
year term. Deputy FAA Administrator Michael
Huerta will serve as acting administrator. Industry officials
and lawmakers said they expect Huerta to continue in the
post through next year since
the White House probably will
want to avoid a possible nomination fight before the presidential election.
In recent months, Huerta has
been leading the FAA’s troubled NextGen effort to transition from an air traffic control
system based on World War
II-era radar technology to one
based on satellite technology.
Babbitt, 65, was arrested
Saturday night in Fairfax City,
Va., by a patrolman who said
the nation’s top aviation official was driving on the wrong
side of the road.

GOP split on Dems’
payroll tax cut plan
WASHINGTON — A Republican Party that has for decades
benefited from a commitment
to lower taxes is now finding
itself on the defensive on the
issue, as members face a deep
split over a Democratic plan to
extend a payroll tax reduction.
What might normally be a
no-brainer for most congressional Republicans is being resisted by many tea party-conscious members who oppose
what they consider a short-term
gimmick that would worsen
the federal deficit and siphon
money from Social Security.
Republican leaders fear that
the party, which has spent the
past year fighting Democrats’
proposals to raise taxes on the
wealthy, cannot now allow the
payroll tax to increase without
handing Democrats a powerful election-year argument
that the GOP supports lower
taxes only for the rich.

Obama in Kansas:
Middle class at stake
OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — Declaring the American middle
class in jeopardy, President
Barack Obama on Tuesday
outlined a populist economic
vision that will drive his reelection bid, insisting the
United States must reclaim its
standing as a country in which
everyone can prosper if provided “a fair shot and a fair share.”
While never making an overt
plea for a second term, Obama’s
offered his most comprehensive lines of attack against the
candidates seeking to take his
job, only a month before Republican voters begin choosing
a presidential nominee. He also
sought to inject some of the
long-overshadowed hope that
energized his 2008 campaign,
saying: “I believe America is on
its way up.”
In small-town Osawatomie,
in a high school gym where
patriotic bunting lined the
bleachers, Obama presented
himself as the one fighting for
shared sacrifice and success
against those who would gut
government and let people
fend for themselves.

GOP filibuster blocks
judicial confirmation
Senate Republicans on Tuesday filibustered the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit,
blocking a nominee President
Obama tapped last year to
serve on one of the country’s
most powerful courts.
The final roll call vote on cutting off debate was 54-45. Sen.
Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska,
joined all 53 members of the
Democratic caucus in voting
to move ahead with Halligan’s
nomination, leaving the former
New York state solicitor general
six votes short of the 60 needed
to end debate. Sen. Orrin Hatch,
R-Utah, who has never voted to
filibuster a judicial nomination,
voted “present.”
— From wire reports

Bonn, Germany, that had been
viewed as an opportunity for
Afghanistan to cement longterm support from the West.
But the conference fell considerably short of the objectives that officials had envisioned because Taliban insurgents and Pakistani diplomats
did not attend.
Critics of Pakistan were
quick to read both Monday’s
boycott and Tuesday’s bombings as a signal from the Pakistanis, delivered by Lashkare-Jhangvi, that Afghanistan
could not ignore Pakistan.
The actual intentions of
those behind Tuesday’s attacks
remained murky, however, not
least because of the tangled
history of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
Throughout the day, the official count of the dead climbed
as more and more of the nearly 200 wounded people died of
horrific injuries. In one hospital, five infants were among 14
victims declared dead on arrival. Every hospital in Kabul,
the capital, took in victims.

CHICAGO — Two things
were clear Tuesday by the
close of the first day of Rod
Blagojevich’s sentencing
hearing: the former Illinois
governor was
likely going to
be hit with a
stiff sentence
and his legal
team
had
Blagojevich aba ndoned
its early hope
of him avoiding prison altogether.
At the same time, Blagojevich’s lawyers went to
lengths to portray their client as an extraordinarily
devoted family man at
heart as well as a sensitive,
caring politician who deserves leniency.
���Be merciful,” Blagojevich’s wife, Patti, wrote to
U.S. District Judge James
Zagel in excerpts from a
letter read in court.
“Be merciful,” Blagojevich’s lawyer, Aaron Goldstein, repeated as he closed
a lengthy argument that for
the first time acknowledged
wrongdoing by Blagojevich
but also sought to minimize
the damage it caused.
Blagojevich has yet to
speak on his own behalf;
that will come today before
Zagel formally decides on
how long his punishment is
to last for convictions on 18
criminal counts involving
the attempted sale of a U.S.
Senate seat, illegal shakedowns for campaign cash
and lying to federal agents.
But Zagel made it clear
that he plans to take a hardline approach to interpreting
sentencing guidelines, siding with prosecutors in their
calculation that Blagojevich
hoped to squeeze more than
$1.6 million in campaign
cash from schemes on
which he was convicted.
Prosecutors are asking for
a sentence of 15 to 20 years
in prison for Blagojevich.

Owner to pay $209 million
in W.Va. coal mine explosion

U.S. backs
gay rights
abroad

Bryan Denton / New York Times News Service

A woman walks away from the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday. At
least 63 people were killed and scores wounded after bombers struck Shiite religious observances on Tuesday in three cities, detonating explosives amid crowds of worshipers in the
first such sectarian attacks in a decade of war in Afghanistan.

Pakistani extremists
claim responsibility
By Rod Nordland
New York Times News Service

KABUL, Afghanistan —
A Pakistan-based extremist group claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks aimed at Afghan Shiites on Tuesday, in
what many feared was an
attempt to further destabilize Afghanistan by adding
a new dimension of strife to
a country that, though battered by a decade of war,
has been free of sectarian
conflict.
The attacks, among the
war’s deadliest, struck
three Afghan cities — Kabul, Kandahar and Mazare-Sharif — almost simultaneously and killed at least
63 Shiite worshippers on
Ashura, which marks the
death of Shiite Islam’s holiest martyr.
Targeted strikes by Sunnis against Shiites are alien
to Afghanistan. So it was
no surprise to Afghans
when responsibility was

By Sabrina Tavernise
and Clifford Krauss
New York Times News Service

In what officials say is the
largest settlement ever in a
government investigation
of a mine disaster, Alpha
Natural Resources agreed
to pay $209 million in restitution and civil and criminal penalties for the role of
its subsidiary, Massey Energy, in a mine explosion
last year that killed 29 men
in West Virginia.
The deal includes $46.5
million for the families of
the victims and those who
were injured in the blast,
and includes terms that
protect Alpha — but not individual Massey executives
— from criminal prosecution, said Steven Ruby, an
assistant U.S. attorney for
the Southern District of
West Virginia.
But for the families of the
miners killed in the accident
— the worst such disaster in

“It’s a
blessing,” said
Thomas
Haynesworth after
his release
in Richmond, Va.
“Twentyseven
years ...
I never
gave up.”
Steve Helber
The Associated
Press

claimed by a Sunni extremist
group from Pakistan, where
Sunnis and Shiites have been
energetically killing one another for decades.
The group, Lashkar-eJhangvi, had not previously
claimed or carried out attacks
in Afghanistan, however, and
its emergence fueled suspicions that al-Qaida, the Taliban
or Pakistan’s spy agency — or
some combination of those
three — had teamed up with
the group to send the message
that Afghanistan’s future stability remained deeply tenuous
and indeed dependent on the
cooperation of outside forces.
“Never in our history have
there been such cruel attacks
on religious observances,”
President Hamid Karzai said
in a statement. “The enemies
of Afghanistan do not want
us to live under one roof with
peace and harmony.”
The timing of the attacks
was especially pointed, coming a day after an international
conference on Afghanistan in

40 years — the settlement was
justice denied. Many were hoping for criminal charges against
the people who ran Massey, the
company that, according to the
federal government’s own review, knowingly put their relatives in harm’s way.
“Families believe that senior
executives should be prosecuted, but they don’t have any
great faith that they will be,
and that’s what they are afraid
of,” said Mark Moreland, a
lawyer who represents the
families of two victims.
Federal prosecutors say
they are trying to do just that,
pursuing cases against a number of individuals involved in
the explosion. But industry observers warned that because
of weak mining safety laws,
prosecutors face a steep uphill battle pursuing the biggest
prize — criminal convictions
of the powerful people who
ran Massey.
Under the federal mine act,
safety violations, with the ex-

ception of falsifying records,
are categorized as misdemeanors. That limitation that
could make it hard to build a
case against senior managers,
like Don Blankenship, the former chief executive of Massey,
lawyers said.
“Until someone goes to jail,
there will be no justice done
here,” said Cecil Roberts, president of United Mine Workers
of America International.
Only the mine’s security
chief at the time of the blast,
Hughie Stover, is facing criminal charges so far.
Still, many argued that the
disaster brought a turning
point in the way federal inspectors from the Mine Safety
and Health Administration
dealt with the industry.
“We have certainly seen a
change,” said Keith Heasley, a
professor of mining engineering at West Virginia University. “They have stepped up
their enforcement, and they
are issuing more paper.”

The Washington Post
GENEVA — The Obama
administration said Tuesday that it will intensify efforts to fight discrimination
against lesbians, gay men,
bisexuals and transgender
individuals as a major element of its foreign policy.
In coordinated actions,
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton delivered an impassioned, lengthy speech on
the subject to diplomats and
activists at the U.N. Human
Rights Council here and
the White House released
a presidential memo ordering all elements of the federal government abroad to
“ensure that U.S. diplomacy
and foreign assistance promote and protect the human
rights of LGBT persons.”
President
Barack
Obama’s directive said he
was “deeply concerned by
the violence” against LGBT
people in many parts of the
world.

After 27 years in prison,
man exonerated in rapes
The Washington Post
A Virginia appeals court declared Thomas
Haynesworth an innocent man Tuesday, clearing his name and acknowledging that he spent 27
years behind bars for rapes he did not commit.
It is the first time the state has issued a “writ
of actual innocence” in a rape case without the
certainty of DNA evidence. Haynesworth, 46,
was supported by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and two state prosecutors, all of whom
concluded that he was mistakenly identified by
a rape victim in 1984.

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The IMC will include six teams in 2012-13. Bend, Mountain
View, Summit and Redmond high schools will be included at
the 5A level. Crook County and Ridgeview will compete at the
4A level.

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Conference
Continued from A1
The move places the majority of Central Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high
schools in one conference,
and when it comes to reducing
travel times and costs, Walsh
says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing.â&#x20AC;?
The conference is considered
a â&#x20AC;&#x153;hybridâ&#x20AC;? by the state as it includes both 4A and 5A schools.
That means the two 4A schools,
Ridgeview and Crook County,
and the remaining 5A schools
will need to schedule out-ofconference games and events
to qualify for playoffs and meet
ranking requirements.
Cross-classification games
arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t uncommon. In its current form, the IMC requires
schools to compete outside
the area to meet classification playoff requirements.
Redmond competes against
6A schools from five conferences. Crook County, the only
4A school, competes against
Roosevelt in Portland to qualify for state playoffs.
But that will change next
year as the OSAA board
moved Roosevelt from 4A to
5A at the Monday meeting.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re essentially going to
be replacing Roosevelt with
Ridgeview,â&#x20AC;? said Scott Polen,
athletic director for the Crook
County School District. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That
means less travel for the kids
and less costs for the district.â&#x20AC;?
Polen said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a three-hour
bus trip between Prineville
and North Portland and
transportation costs work
out to $1.50 per mile to run a
bus with a driver being paid
around $22 per hour. Swapping the cross-mountain trek
with a drive to Redmond is
an appetizing change for the
cash-strapped school district, which is known for its
fundraising to keep its sports
programs afloat.

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Continued from A1
Home Depot, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
largest
home-improvement
retailer, and second-biggest
Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are trying to capitalize
on the holidays, boosting orders for trees and decorations
to offset sinking demand for
appliances amid projections
that housing prices will keep
falling next year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a business we
should own,â&#x20AC;? Home Depot
Chief Financial Officer Carol
Tome said by telephone from
Atlanta, where the company
is based. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were selling
the most trees of any retailer
in America, but we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
offering the ornaments or
the light strings or the tree
stands. So we expanded our
assortment.â&#x20AC;?
Holiday decor sales may
climb 8.1 percent this year, rising for a second consecutive
year, according to the Washington-based NRF, citing an
October survey of consumers
by BIGresearch. More than
68 percent of consumers may
indulge, the highest level in
three years, the NRF said.
Pushing trees, ornaments
and lights will help fourthquarter sales at Home Depot
and Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, said Joe Feldman,
an analyst at Telsey Advisory
Group in New York. Typically
the last quarter of the year is
the slowest for the home-improvement chains, generating
about 22 percent of revenue.

Hot sellers: cool gadgets
Shoppers are drawn by new
technology, Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
Robert Niblock said in an interview. Hot sellers include
solar-powered lights, LED
bulbs that keep burning even
if one breaks and a $99 gadget

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to save us a bunch
of money,â&#x20AC;? Polen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still
going to be very difficult with
our (financial) situation, but for
most sports this makes sense
because we can be competitive with the Bend schools. It
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for football, because it
just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense for us
to compete against Mountain
View, but we can still schedule
nonconference games for that.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thankful for the situation
we will be playing in next
year.â&#x20AC;?
Bend schools will also benefit. Football may still require
some creative scheduling, but
most athletics will play the
majority of their games inside
the conference.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really happy to see
this scenario,â&#x20AC;? said Dave Hood,
athletic director for Mountain
View.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;For us, the three schools in
Bend, it made it really difficult
just having three (5A teams) in
the conference. We may still
have to find five nonconference
games in football, but for basketball, volleyball, softball, we
can schedule (in conference)
and it makes our round-robins
a lot easier.â&#x20AC;?
This move could be a precursor for a larger Central
Oregon conference in 2014-15.
Next year OSAA will begin
examining the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s class
and conference system as a
whole and potentially making
more realignment decisions.
Walsh said at that time he
hopes to see Madras, Sisters
and La Pine, all 4A schools,
join the IMC.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;That hybrid (conference)
would be huge financially for
us,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A few years ago,
it was about being competitive,
but now, as we look at money
and surviving, things have
changed. It makes sense.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reporter: 541-617-7837,
ehidle@bendbulletin.com

that makes lights blink in time
with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jingle Bellsâ&#x20AC;? and other
carols.
Thomas Schuitema, who
owns the Broadway Bar &
Grill in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;had to haveâ&#x20AC;? a string of LED
lights that create the effect of
snow falling down each bulb.
They cost $160 and now adorn
his restaurant.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They just caught my eye,â&#x20AC;?
said Schuitema, who has been
decorating the eatery for 18 of
his 54 years.
During the past decade,
home-improvement
stores
have taken advantage of their
size â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 10 times bigger than
the typical drugstore â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to
grab sales with ever-growing
displays of trees and inflatable
decorations, said Scott Manning, Home Depotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s merchandising vice president in charge
of seasonal items.
Since selling its first cut tree
26 years ago, Home Depot
has given holiday decor more
space and stepped up marketing. It displays garlands and
ornaments at store entrances
and last month gave buyers of
more-efficient LED lights a $5
rebate for trading in their old
incandescent strands.
At a Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Greensboro,
an inflatable Santa waves and
nods at shoppers entering the
store. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new this year, as is
a blow-up Santa and sleigh at
Home Depot, which has boosted holiday sales every year
through the economic slump,
said Jean Niemi, a company
spokeswoman.
Inflatable
Santa
gets
around. He drives motorcycles
and airplanes and helicopters.
At Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, he looms over the
entrance to the garden center.
Inside the store, up on a shelf,
an outhouse door pops open
and Santa pops out, with an
elf holding his nose.

New York Times News Service

FUTABA, Japan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Futaba
is a modern-day ghost town
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not a boomtown gone bust,
not even entirely a victim of the
devastating earthquake and
tsunami that leveled other parts
of Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northeast coast.
The roadway arch at the
entrance to the empty town almost seems a taunt. It reads:
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nuclear energy: a correct
understanding brings a prosperous lifestyle.â&#x20AC;?
Those who fled Futaba are
among the nearly 90,000 people evacuated from a 12-mile
zone around the Fukushima
Dai-ichi plant and another
area to the northwest contaminated when a plume from
the plant scattered radioactive
cesium and iodine.
Now, Japan is drawing up
plans for a cleanup both monumental and unprecedented, in
the hopes that those displaced
can go home.
The debate over whether
to repopulate the area, if trial
cleanups prove effective, has
become a proxy for a larger
battle over the future of Japan.
Supporters see rehabilitating
the area as a chance to showcase the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formidable

Ko Sasaki / New York Times News Service

A Japanese cleanup crew replaces soil as part of the decontamination effort in Minamisoma. The country is planning a
monumental and unprecedented cleanup in the 12-mile zone
surrounding the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
plant, in the hope that the displaced can go home.

determination and superior
technical know-how â&#x20AC;&#x201D; proof
that Japan is still a great power.
Critics counter that the effort to clean Fukushima prefecture could end up as perhaps the biggest of Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
white-elephant public works
projects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and yet another example of post-disaster Japan
reverting to the wasteful ways
that have crippled economic

growth for two decades.
So far, the government is
following a pattern set since
the nuclear accident, dismissing dangers, often prematurely, laboring to minimize the
scope of the catastrophe. Already, the trial cleanups have
stalled: The government failed
to anticipate communitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reluctance to store tons of soil to
be scraped from contaminated

Homeless
Continued from A1
Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney was
at first skeptical and believed
it was impossible to eliminate
homelessness. But others involved in the effort said they
needed to have lofty goals to
make progress, and Baney ultimately agreed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our region didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to
do this; we chose to do this,â&#x20AC;?
Baney said.
The plan calls for changes
in existing practices at local
agencies and ideas for initiatives. It also calls for changes
to local laws and government
policies. The nonprofits and
government agencies believe
they need to raise $40 million
from federal, state and private
sources to achieve their goals
over the next 10 years, according to the 82-page plan. The
project will be overseen by the
Homeless Leadership Coalition, a group of local nonprofits and government agencies.
Officials from Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties,
the cities within them and the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs began working on the
plan in May 2009. Communities across the nation have
adopted similar plans, based
on a concept promoted by
the National Alliance to End
Homelessness.

Thousands of homeless
in the region
In January, there were about
2,270 homeless people living
in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, according to
a one-night count conducted
by the Homeless Leadership
Coalition. Most of the homeless people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1,771 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; lived in
Deschutes County, with 229 in
Crook County and 271 in Jefferson County.
Former Bend mayor Bruce
Abernethy said one goal of
the homeless plan is to reduce
the stigma and stereotypes associated with homelessness,
and that will require efforts of
people in the community. Children account for 45 percent of
the Central Oregon homeless
population, Abernethy said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are people going
through things through no
fault of their own,â&#x20AC;? he said.

yards and fields.
Even a vocal supporter
of repatriation suggests
that the government has
not yet leveled with its people about the seriousness of
their predicament.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe it is possible
to save Fukushima,â&#x20AC;? said
the supporter, Tatsuhiko
Kodama, director of the
Radioisotope Center at the
University of Tokyo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But
many evacuated residents
must accept that it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
happen in their lifetimes.â&#x20AC;?
The Soviet Union did not
attempt such a cleanup after the Chernobyl accident
of 1986, instead relocating
about 300,000 people.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are different from
Chernobyl,â&#x20AC;? said Toshitsuna Watanabe, 64, the
mayor of Okuma, one of
the towns that was evacuated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are determined
to go back.â&#x20AC;?
But quiet resistance has
begun to grow, both among
those who were displaced
and those who fear the
country will need to sacrifice too much without guarantees that a multibilliondollar cleanup will provide
enough protection.

How to help
To get involved in
the Central Oregon
10 Year Plan to End
Homelessness, call
Bruce Abernethy at
541-355-1024 or
Kenny LaPoint at 541323-7419 .
To obtain a copy
of the plan, visit www
.cohomeless.org.

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Kyle Holdsworth, 18, packs his bags Tuesday afternoon before
moving to Provo, Utah, to study case management at Utah Valley University. Holdsworth lived at the The LOFT in Bend for the
last year, after he became homeless. Relatives in Utah recently
contacted him and offered to have him come live with them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
plan on going for four years, then coming back to Bend and apply to work here. I definitely want to pay it forward,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Homeless Leadership
Coalition wants to secure
funding to hire an advocate
to help homeless people who
qualify for Social Security
and disability benefits to navigate the application process.
They want to create a â&#x20AC;&#x153;service bankâ&#x20AC;? of professionals
willing to provide free or discounted health, legal, veterinary and other services.

Housing options explored
The coalition wants to explore whether inexpensive
and flexible housing options,
such as donated RVs, would

be a good option.
And the group wants to provide secure places for homeless individuals to receive
mail and help for those who
need copies of their birth certificates, Social Security cards
and other government identification to get jobs, driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
licenses and benefits such as
food stamps.
Often, when people want to
open homeless shelters and
similar housing, they encounter roadblocks in the form of
state land use laws and city
and county codes. There can
also be a lack of political will to

change group housing laws
and strong opposition from
neighbors, as occurred in
Bend when The Shepherdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
House homeless shelter expanded in 2009 and when
two treatment homes for
people with mental illnesses opened in 2010, the planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
authors wrote.
The coalition plans to
draft model ordinances and
policies to make it easier
for groups to provide housing for the homeless, with
the goal that all Central
Oregon cities and counties
will adopt them by December 2013.
Other proposals are
aimed at reducing the number of people who leave the
foster care system, county
jails, state prisons and local emergency rooms with
nowhere to go.
Authors of the plan acknowledged they face
challenges.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, when the
need is greatest, we see our
regional emergency shelters facing severe funding
difficulties, cutting back
on services, reducing staff,
and even threatened with
closure,â&#x20AC;? they wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
current deep recession
is forecasted to last until
2015-16 or longer, and it is
definitely impacting private
donors and foundations.â&#x20AC;?
As Abernethy said Tuesday, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now comes the hard
part â&#x20AC;&#x201D; implementation.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reporter: 541-617-7829,
hborrud@bendbulletin.com

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Panel: Olympus’
culture ‘rotten’
TOKYO — An outside
panel appointed by
Olympus to investigate
its financial scandal
issued a harsh report
Tuesday, calling the
company’s recently
departed management
“rotten to the core.”
The panel, led by
a former Japanese
Supreme Court judge,
also details the roles it
claims were played by
three former Nomura
bankers in arranging a
cover-up, and it says
Olympus paid the bankers for their efforts. It
also criticizes Olympus’
auditors for failing to
expose fraud at the
company.
The report also
says that Olympus
had persuaded several banks to submit
incomplete financial
statements to auditors,
in an apparent effort to
conceal financial maneuvers that the report
says involved at least
$1.7 billion and were
meant to hide failed
investments during the
1990s. There is no indication the banks knew
of Olympus’ cover-up,
the report said.
Olympus’ stock rose
15 percent in Tokyo
on Tuesday before the
report’s release, on
news reports that the
panel would deny any
mob involvement.

A federal judge in Illinois
has ordered a freeze on the
assets of a Bend couple who
ran a futures trading business
and ordered them to preserve
their business records.
The Nov. 29 order from
U.S. District Judge James
Shadid was based on an inves-

tigation by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission into Brant and Melissa
Rushton and their company,
Summit Trading & Capital
LLC.
In a civil complaint
filed Nov. 29 in federal court
in Peoria, Ill., the commission
alleges Summit Trading and
the Rushtons defrauded the

public by misrepresenting
their trading program’s
profitability, sending false
account statements to investors and failing to register
Summit Trading with the commission as a commodity pool
operator. It also states Brant
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tax gains
support
By Steven Greenhouse
and Graham Bowley
New York Times News Service

Santa Claus — Cliff Snider
— gets a kiss on the
cheek from Bella Champion, 3, during a Christmas
photo shoot in Emerald
Isle, N.C., on Nov. 30.
When Snider, who’s been
playing Santa since he
was a teenager, gets a
big-ticket request, he typically answers: “There’s an
awful lot of children asking for that this year. What
else do you want?”
Tom Copeland
The Associated Press

Got a job in that red sack?

Wizarding World
looking west
ORLANDO, Fla.
— The Wizarding World
of Harry Potter is going
west. A second park will
open at the Universal
Studios Hollywood
theme park in California,
the company revealed
Tuesday.
Tuesday’s announcement concentrated
on Universal Studios
Hollywood. On hand
were California Gov.
Jerry Brown plus actors
James and Oliver Phelps
— who played the Weasley twins in the films.
Details about the
Hollywood Potter plan
were thin, although a
news release boasted it
“will be as impressive as
what has been created
in Orlando.”
Hollywood will include a Hogwarts castle
and its signature ride:
Harry Potter and the
Forbidden Journey.
No details about a
Hogsmeade village, other rides or restaurants
were shared.
“I am sure that the
teams at Universal and
Warner Bros. will bring
their expertise and
attention to detail to
Hollywood to make this
new experience equally
as exciting,” J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry
Potter books, said in the
release. She was not on
stage for the announcement.

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At Work, B3
Stock listings, B4-5

They call it the Robin Hood
tax — a tiny levy on trades
in the financial markets that
would take money from
the banks and give it to the
world’s poor.
And like the mythical
hero of Sherwood Forest, it
is beginning to capture the
public’s imagination.
Driven by populist anger
at bankers as well as government needs for more
revenue, the idea of a tax on
trades of stocks, bonds and
other financial instruments
has attracted an array of influential champions, including the leaders of France
and Germany, billionaire
philanthropists, former
Vice President Al Gore, the
consumer activist Ralph
Nader, Pope Benedict XVI
and the archbishop of
Canterbury.
See Robin Hood / B5

INVESTMENT

Meet the
masters of
the bond
market
By Nathaniel Popper
and Walter Hamilton
Los Angeles Times

Jae S. Lee / The Associated Press

Sixteen-month-old Fenn Graham cries as he has his pictures taken with Santa at the Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, Tenn.

• Santa Claus is hearing more humble wishes from kids during economic downturn
By Martha Waggoner • The Associated Press

A

job for their mom or dad. Money for
the heating bill. Food or a place to live.
Maybe gloves or boots.

More and more, Santas say the children on

their laps are asking for less for themselves
— and Santa is promising less as well.

With unemployment high,
more homes in foreclosure
and the economic outlook
dim, many children who visit
Santa are all too aware of the
struggle to make ends meet.
“These children understand the conditions around
the home when they ask for
stuff,” said Richard Holden,
a Santa from Gastonia, N.C.
“They understand when there
are other children in the fam-

ily, they need to be cautious or
thoughtful of them as well.”
Cliff Snider, who’s been
playing Santa since he was a
teenager, agrees.
“I think the parents are
saying, ‘It’s an economic
thing. Just list two to three
things you really want,’ ” he
said. “Parents are trying to
encourage the children to be
thrifty.”
See Santa Claus / B5

NEW YORK—When the
U.S. government needed
expert help in evaluating
the bonds that caused the
2008 financial crisis, there
were only two men it could
turn to.
Larry Fink, the founder
of investment giant BlackRock Inc., and Bill Gross,
the founder of Pacific Investment Management Co.,
are the generally acknowledged kings of the bond
universe.
Together, the companies
they run hold approximately 7.5 percent of all
outstanding bonds. The $1.2
trillion managed by BlackRock and the $1.1 trillion at
Pimco dwarf the holdings of
the next largest bond players, according to data from
Pensions & Investments.
“They’ve come to be the
poster children for the bond
market,” said Roy Smith, a
professor of financial history at New York University.
See Bonds / B5

— From wire reports

Factory orders
Total new orders to
American factories for
all manufactured goods:
Seasonally adjusted
$460 billion

$450
billion

450
440

EUROPE

Apple, publishers face antitrust
investigation over e-book sales
By James Kanter
New York Times News Service

BRUSSELS — The European antitrust authority said
Tuesday that it was investigating possible collusion
between Apple and five major
publishing houses in the
growing market for electronic
books.
The European Commission said that Apple may have

helped imprints like Penguin,
owned by Pearson of Britain,
and Harper Collins, owned
by News Corp. of the United
States, to engage in “anti-competitive practices affecting the
sale of e-books.”
In particular, the commission said it was “examining
the character and terms of
the agency agreements entered into” by the publishers

and retailers of e-books, like
Apple.
The three other imprints
named by the commission
were Hachette Livre, owned
by Lagardere of France; Simon & Schuster, a division
of CBS of the United States,
and Verlagsgruppe Georg von
Holzbrinck of Germany.
Apple declined to comment.
See E-books / B5

The Associated Press file photo

Visitors look at e-books at a book fair in Frankfurt, Germany.
The European Union’s antitrust watchdog said Tuesday it is
probing whether Apple and five major publishing houses have
colluded to restrict competition in the market for e-books.

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new-vehicle purchases as
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are snapping up F-Series
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consumer confidence in the
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The industry has managed
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where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing too much
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down about $74 from a year
ago, according to LMC and
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surged in November by the
most in more than eight years,
and the portion of consumers
planning to buy a new vehicle
within six months climbed to
the highest since April, data
from The Conference Board
showed Nov. 29.
The average age of cars
and light trucks on the road
today has risen to 10.6 years
old, Jenny Lin, Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior
U.S. economist, said on a
conference call last week.
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and more of this pent-up demand realized,â&#x20AC;? Lin told analysts and reporters.
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prices for providing â&#x20AC;&#x153;reliefâ&#x20AC;? to
consumers, who responded
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vehicles and pickups.
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dollar is
turning into a haven for
foreign-exchange
investors shunning European
turmoil and seeking the
safety of the U.S. without
the budget deficits or political gridlock.
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the start of the year, the
most among 10 currencies
tracked in Bloomberg Correlation Weighted Indexes,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up 2.1 percent in the
past three months. Only
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Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is
growing at 3 percent, twice
the average pace of Group
of Seven and euro-area
nations. Finance Minister
Jim Flaherty pledged his
Conservative Party government will eliminate the
budget deficit, forecast at
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by 2015. The U.S. deficit is
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HOLIDAY FRUGALITY

By Donna Gehrke-White
(South Florida) Sun Sentinel

Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune

Employees of Breakwater Trading have appetizers at their company holiday party at Morton’s
Steakhouse in Chicago on Friday.

CHICAGO
—
Nancy
Wright, president of Chicago’s Blue Plate catering, remembers a time not too long
ago when corporate clients
spared no expense for the
holidays.
“You’d go from ballroom to
ballroom, and each would be
grander than the next,” she
said. “It was an annual occasion you looked forward to on
so many levels.”
Five years ago, six-figure
parties weren’t unheard of,
and part of an accepted yearend ritual to boost employee
morale. But the recession and
waves of layoffs put a quick
end to high times, with pricey
bashes falling out of favor in
2008 and 2009.
Just like millions of American households that have felt
the economic pinch, companies have adjusted their holiday plans, opting for simpler,
smaller celebrations. At the
onset of another holiday season, spirits remain subdued,
yet caterers and restaurants
do cite improvements in party
business from last year, which
also was an improvement over
2009.
“(Clients have) realized
they need to start entertaining again, but doing it in a way
that’s appropriate,” Wright
said, adding that businesses
that once spent $50,000 on a
party have dropped to about
$15,000. Companies now consider entertaining in the office, perhaps in the lobby, with
heavy appetizers rather than a
full meal, maybe inviting clients, but not spouses.

‘Out of fashion’
David Brandt, director of
catering at Chicago’s Palmer
House hotel, has a starker view
of corporate holiday parties:
“They’ve gone out of fashion
with the recession, and I don’t
think — frankly — they’re going to come back.”
Events by number are
down about 25 percent from
five years ago, he said, and
spending per guest has
also declined, by about 23
percent.
Brandt pointed to decreased
alcohol offerings as a leading reason for lower spending, as clients remain worried
about incurring liability from
accidents.
Allan Thompson, director
of administration at Mayer
Brown, a Chicago-based law
firm, said his firm actually
found savings by holding an
off-site party. The firm had
traditionally held its party inhouse, renting plates, glasses
and linens, and bringing in catered food.
Holding the party outside
saved money and has been
more fun for employees,
Thompson said. This year’s
event, at Hotel Allegro Chicago, will consist of beer, wine
and appetizers, starting at 4
p.m.
“There won’t be champagne flowing or anything
like that,” Thompson said,
adding that the firm has
been looking at “all of our
expenses.”
Walgreen spokesman Mi-

FORT LAUDERDALE,
Fla. — More young adults
are finding home is, indeed,
sweet.
They are returning to live
with Mom and Dad while
they get started in careers
and begin saving for their
own digs.
Some also are paying
down college loans, starting
their first savings accounts
as adults and setting aside
money for retirement. Many
under age 24 say they have
been influenced by the Great
Recession that struck while
they were still in school.
“I miss my independence,” said Teresa Shum.
She moved back to her
family’s Pembroke Pines,
Fla., house after graduating
from the University of Florida last spring and starting
work as a publicist.
But, she said, “It makes
more sense to save money
before moving out” — cash
that could help her afford
her own home. Shum said
she’s able to set aside about
$1,000 a month.
She’s not alone. The U.S.
Census Bureau found that
in just four years, the number of young adults — ages
20 to 29 — living with their
parents has increased
from 27 percent in 2007 to
30 percent in 2011. Nearly
half of those who are 20 to
24 years old now live with
Mom and Dad.
In South Florida, probably even more 20-some-

things live at home than the
national average because of
the bad economy that makes it
hard to get a job and the large
number of Hispanic and Caribbean families favor grown
kids living at home until marriage, said Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, an economics professor
who directs the Center of Economic Research at Florida International University.
His daughter returned home
after she lost her job, he said.
Plenty of other young South
Floridians, however, are living
with their family to save for
their own future home.
Alex Seaman, a 22-year-old
firefighter-paramedic, wants
to save enough for a down payment on a house. He thinks
he’ll reach that goal in another
year or two, as long as he lives
at his parents’ home in Plantation, Fla. He’s also started to put
away money for his retirement.
“I’m fortunate to have a career and can save some money,” Seaman said. He knows it
would take a lot longer to save
for a down payment if he had
to rent an apartment.
Economist Salazar-Carrillo
said rent, utilities, cable TV,
insurance and other expens-

es can eat most of a starting
income.
He also said many young
people don’t want to scrimp.
This is not a generation to forego fun, Salazar-Carrillo said.
“Those 26 and under have
their own ideas of consumption,” he said. “That includes
a car, some weekend splurge
money,” as much as $200 a
weekend.
He disagreed with some analysts who say the increased
number of young people living at home is hurting the
economy because they are not
spending on furniture and other goods to start a new household. They are choosing to
spend their money elsewhere,
especially on entertainment,
Salazar-Carrillo said.
The young adults returning
home said they help their parents at home.
Estee Pinzon, a 2010 Loyola
University graduate who is
now a digital media specialist in Plantation, chauffeurs
her younger brother and sister
from their Parkland home to
soccer practice and other after-school activities.
“She’s an extra hand in the
house,” said her mother, Grace
Pinzon, who now has the flexibility of working late or traveling because Estee is there
to watch the two younger
children.

chael Polzin said the Deerfield, Ill.-based pharmacy
chain traditionally held an
in-office lunch on Christmas
Eve, when employees generally work a half-day. He said
Walgreen stopped holding
the lunch several years ago
when the company became
too big to host everyone at
headquarters.
The decision wasn’t motivated by savings, Polzin said, and
there’s been no effort to revive
the event. “I think everyone’s
happy to spend the extra time
with their families on Christmas Eve,” he said.
At Morton’s Restaurant
Group, seasonal party business is up double digits from
2010, said Roger Drake, senior
vice president, marketing and
communications. The highbrow, dinner-centric steakhouse chain has also made a
nod to the shifting mores for
the holidays.
“Some companies, because
of budgetary constraints, are
going to have to do a lunch,”
Drake said, which results in a
lower average check.

‘Snack-size’ events
Smaller functions and
menus also have been beneficial for Corner Bakery Cafe,
with the chain’s holiday catering business increasing for
each of the past two years.
“Maybe (businesses) spend
smarter than they did in the
go-go days of ’05, ’06, ’07,” said
Jim Vinz, president and chief
operating officer. And while
they won’t sacrifice quality,
he said, businesses are “looking to feed greater number of
people with more snack-size
portions.”
In addition to boosting employee morale, companies say
such events are an important
tool for networking.
The newly renovated Chicago offices of Wagstaff Worldwide, a Los Angeles-based PR
firm focused on the hospitality industry, will host between
100 and 150 guests later this
month, primarily clients and
media.
“It’s going to be sort of a

spirited, elegant cocktail reception,” said Jim Lee, vice
president at Wagstaff, adding
that the firm considered live
entertainment but will likely
opt for an iPod playlist. Lee
said the office’s 14 employees also celebrate with an
annual holiday dinner at a
restaurant.

The big events
Of course, for some employers, the desire for a bigger
splash remains.
At the Chicago offices of
Olson, a Minneapolis-based
advertising and PR firm, the
company holds an annual holiday bash including spouses
or significant others, a full bar
and an in-office omelet breakfast the following morning
for employees to rehash the
festivities.
“It’s a reason to celebrate
a good year, and every year
a reason to thank not only
our employees but spouses or
significant others,” said Pete
Marino, president of Olson.
“They are an important part
of enabling our people to do
the work, and travel a lot.”
If it came down to excluding
spouses to save money, Marino said, “I’m not sure we’d
have a party.”
Then there’s Wauconda, Ill.based MBX Systems, which
has hosted an overnight party,
including hotel stay, for the
past seven years. The company has 100 employees and
spends nearly $50,000 on the
holiday party, considering it
important for employee morale. This year’s bash will be
at the Hotel Allegro Chicago.
Karen Niziolek, senior coordinator of sales and events
at MBX, said the company has
hired a DJ to perform during
dinner, and Blues Brothers
impersonators will mingle
during the cocktail hour and
perform after dinner.
“Employees do spend a lot
of time at work, and management really wants to make
sure they feel valued,” she
said. “We have a budget and
work within the budget but
don’t want to skimp out.”

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Complaint
Continued from B1
Investors — referred to in
the complaint as participants
— provided at least $854,000
to Summit Trading & Capital,
according to the document.
Neither the Rushtons nor
a Bend attorney who represented them earlier this year
could be reached for comment
Tuesday.
According to the commission’s complaint, Summit
Trading & Capital was started
in Illinois and dissolved last
year. However, records show
a move to Bend in 2007, with a
location on Northwest Champion Circle as its last principal
address. The Rushtons, who
also moved to Bend, founded
the company and served as
its principals, according to the
complaint.
Summit operated as a commodity pool operator, which
solicits or accepts funds for
trading commodities futures
contracts — which are essentially agreements to buy or sell
something at a specific price
in the future.
Historically,
commodity
trading involved wheat, rice,
corn and other agricultural
products, according to the
commission. Over the last
20 years, it has expanded to
include crude oil, foreign currencies, government securities, electricity and even the
weather.
According to the regulatory
agency, neither Summit Trading nor either of the Rushtons
has ever been registered with
the commission in any capac-

E-books
Continued from B1
In a statement, Pearson
said it did “not believe it has
breached any laws, and will
continue to fully and openly
cooperate with the commission.” HarperCollins said that
it was “cooperating fully with
the investigation.”
Until recently, a variety
of retailers including major
bookshop chains had the power to set the price of books.
But that system began to
change when the publishers,
possibly with the help of Apple
— which markets its popular
iPad that also serves as an ebook reader — took greater
control over the power to set
prices, according to European
officials.
Those changes may have
kept the prices of e-books

ity. Companies or individuals
who handle customers’ money
or give trading advice must
be registered, the commission
states.
The Rushtons had a trading
account with a futures merchant, a company that takes
the orders for futures trading.
Prospectuses from Summit
said one of its trading pools
— based on a stock index futures — averaged 11 profitable
months per year and another
— trading in ag products, metals, stock indexes and currencies — had a nearly 87 percent
net return, according to the
commission’s complaint.
But the trading account
showed losses in 63 out of
69 months between January
2006 and September, the complaint stated, and the Rushtons
made 275 withdrawals out of
the trading account into individual accounts held by Brant
Rushton or into joint bank
accounts.
Participants
received
monthly statements from
Summit Trading & Capital,
according to the complaint,
showing profits from the trading “when in fact, defendants’
actual trading resulted in
losses virtually every single
month.”
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
wants the court to impose penalties, order restitution and
ban any future trading, according to the complaint.
In his order, the judge scheduled a hearing for Dec. 13 in
Peoria.
— Reporter: 541-383-0360,
tdoran@bendbulletin.com

higher than they might otherwise have been in a fully competitive market, the officials
said.
The decision to open the case
followed surprise inspections at
the offices of companies in the
sector in March, and the commission said it would treat the
case “as a matter of priority.”
European officials are now
expected to investigate further
to determine whether Apple
and the publishers deliberately
set out to influence prices, and
whether consumers have been
paying too much for e-books.
The European Commission,
the executive body of the European Union, can fine companies found to have breached the
bloc’s competition rules up to 10
percent of their global annual
sales, and it can require them to
change their business practices,
if they find wrongdoing.

Santa Claus
Continued from B1
And the 64-year-old
Snider does his best to help
out. When he gets a bigticket request, he typically
responds: “There’s an awful lot of children asking
for that this year. What else
do you want?”
At the Charles W. Howard
Santa Claus School, Santas
learn lines like, “Wow, that’s
a big gift. Is there anything
else you might like?”
These days, though, Santas are having to use it less
and less.
“I think it’s becoming
more popular not to have
that long list,” said Tom
Valent, dean of the Howard
Santa school in Midland,
Mich., which gets more
than 3,000 letters to Santa
a year and just graduated
its 75th class. “Families are
teaching their children to
be as much of a giver as a
receiver.”
Starlight Fonseca has
been teaching her five children, ages 5 to 14, “that
we’re not the only ones who

Bonds
Continued from B1
The gregarious Fink,
59, and the more reserved
Gross, 67, have very different personalities and run
very different companies.
Fink’s asset management
company, based in New
York, has a much broader
business model than Gross’
more focused operation in
Newport Beach, Calif.
Both men created upstart behemoths in a financial industry that tends
to favor experience. Gross
was one of Fink’s first big
clients when he began trading bonds, and Fink used
Gross as an adviser when
BlackRock launched in
1989.
Their views have shaped
the returns of the countless individual investors,
pension funds and sovereign wealth funds parking
money in bond funds run
by Pimco and BlackRock.
But their views have also

had more geopolitical consequences. Although bonds
have traditionally been overshadowed by stocks, the U.S. is
coming off of a financial crisis
caused largely by mortgagebacked bonds. And there are
new fears about plunging values in European government
bonds shoving the global economy back into a recession.
As the world grapples with
these problems, the opinions
of Gross and Fink have defined the debate and sometimes swayed bond prices.
Their dominance has raised
concerns among some critics
who say it is dangerous for two
companies to control such a
large share of the bond market.
But their relationship has more
often than not been defined by
their contrasting views.
Their differences were in full
relief recently when Gross and
Fink made a rare public appearance together, at an event
for other alumni of UCLA’s
Anderson business school.
Gross laid out his pessimistic
outlook, fretting that growth

in developed countries could
be weighed down for years by
debt problems in Europe and
high unemployment in the U.S.
Fink said he sees “all the
same problems, and the problems are enormous.” But he’s
more optimistic because the
underlying “vitality” that fed
the success of U.S. companies
such as Apple and Facebook
remains intact.
“I agree with almost everything Bill is saying, except my
conclusions are generally less
bearish than his,” Fink said.
One point on which the two
men agreed: The public’s outrage at Washington and Wall
Street is legitimate.
“I’m actually very happy
with Occupy Wall Street,” said
Fink. “I’m going to admit it as
part of the financial community: We let down a lot of people.”
“How can one not sympathize with their predicament?”
Gross said of working Americans. “To not have sympathy
with Main Street, as opposed
to Wall Street, that would simply be to have blinders” on.

Robin Hood
Continued from B1
“We all agree that a financial transaction tax
would be the right signal
to show that we have understood that financial
markets have to contribute
their share to the recovery
of economies,” the chancellor of Germany, Angela
Merkel, told her parliament
recently.
So far, the broader debt
crisis engulfing the eurozone nations has pushed
discussion of the tax into
the background. But if European leaders can agree
on a plan that calms the
financial markets, they
would be in a stronger position to enact a levy, analysts said.
“There is some momentum behind this,” said Simon Tilford, chief economist of the Center for European Reform in London. “If
they keep the show on the
road, they probably will attempt to run with this.”
The Robin Hood tax
has also become a rallying point for labor unions,
nongovernmental
organizations and the Occupy
Wall Street movement,
which view it as a way to
claw back money from the
top 1 percent to help the
other 99 percent. Enacting
such a tax still faces many
hurdles, however — most
notably, skepticism from
leaders in the United States
and Britain, home to some
of the world’s most important financial exchanges.
British officials fear that
unless the tax is worldwide,
trading will flee London’s
huge markets to countries
with no tax. The Obama
administration has also
been lukewarm, expressing sympathy but saying
it would be difficult to execute, could drive trading
overseas and would hurt
pension funds and individual investors in addition to
banks.

of the questions kids were asking about unemployed parents
or having to move.
“Let’s all hope your dad will
find a new job, or you will get
into a new home,” is one recommended response.
“Acknowledge the problem,
give them a positive response
and say, ‘Santa loves you, too.
Maybe I could get something
special for you,’ ” said Connaghan. “It’s that quick, usually. But the hope is that when
the child leaves, he feels a little
better.”
Holden remembers one
child returned a year later
and “said she wanted to thank
Santa for getting her some
help when they didn’t have
food or a place to stay.” Someone had overheard the conversation with Santa and helped
the family.
“There’s more to being a
Santa Claus than you think
there is,” Holden said. “You
don’t just go ‘ho, ho, ho,’ pat
them on the back of the head
and send them on their way.
You get involved with them.
... You just make sure they
feel loved and they feel special
when they leave your lap.”

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have to cut things back. We’re
not the only ones struggling.”
The 31-year-old mother and
her husband, Jose, had been
relying on a stipend from the
University of Texas law school
that Fonseca lost when an illness made it impossible for her
to keep her grades up.
Fonseca tells her kids that
“to make it fair for everyone,
Santa has to cut back for everyone. ... We paint it in a way
that Santa is doing the best he
can to make everybody happy
at Christmas.”
It’s especially hard for the
oldest children.
“They were two little kids
who used to be excited about
Christmas, and now they
know every gift under the
tree should have gone to the
utility company,” she said.
“It shouldn’t be that way, but
that’s where we are now.”
Tim Connaghan, who runs
the International University
for Santa Claus in Riverside,
Calif., conducts an annual
survey among the 500 Santas
he employs. The economy has
become such a big issue that
Connaghan asked them for
advice on how to handle some

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A device destroyed
by the Oregon State
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a Redmond apartment
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no danger to the public,
Redmond police said.
Police spent much of
the day at the Chaparral
Apartments on Southwest Rimrock Drive
after contacting a man
who made threatening
remarks. Police then
discovered a suspicious
device inside his apartment. While the man
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Sgt. Bob Duff said
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Water project foes form PAC
• Committee organizers want new city councilors who will revise Bend’s $68.2M upgrade
By Nick Grube
The Bulletin

Some opponents of Bend’s
Bridge Creek water project are
hoping to shake up next year’s
City Council elections.
They recently formed a political action committee with
the purpose of supporting
Bend City Council candidates
who oppose the $68.2 million
project.

Four council seats are up for
election in November, and if
the PAC can get its candidates
in office those individuals
would hold the majority on the
seven-person board.
Eileen Woodward is the
PAC’s treasurer. She said she
started the committee because
she believes the project’s price
tag is too high for ratepayers
and that the current council

hasn’t listened to the concerns
of citizens.
“They seem dead set on going forward with the surface
water plan,” Woodward said.
“Our group thought that the
only way to catch their attention is to go ahead and run
some candidates against them
and get people (on the council)
who will review and revise
that plan.”

There’s been a lot of opposition to the city’s Bridge Creek
project, both for its cost and
its potential impact on Tumalo
Creek.
The project will replace two
aging water pipelines with a
single, 10-mile-long conduit,
add a water filtration system
and include a hydropower
component to generate energy.
See PAC / C2

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The Deschutes
National Forest is seeking candidates for two
positions following
the retirements of the
Redmond Air Center
manager and Sisters
District ranger.
Redmond Air Center
Manager Dan Torrence
is retiring after 35 years
with the Forest Service,
while Bill Anthony,
Sisters District ranger,
is retiring after 32 years
with the agency.
Special Projects Coordinator Rod Bonacker
will be acting district
ranger, and Supervisory Training Specialist
Renee Beams will be
the acting Redmond Air
Center manager.

Pile burning will
continue to take place
at many Central Oregon
locations into the winter.
The burns will take
place along U.S. Highway
97 near La Pine, U.S.
Highway 31 south of La
Pine, Pine Mountain east
of Bend and several locations south of Sisters.
No road closures are
anticipated.

Bethlehem Inn
awarded $20,000
The Bethlehem Inn
has been awarded a
$20,000 grant from the
Safeco Foundation.
The money will help
support the Bethlehem
Inn’s Families First
Program, which helps
homeless families in
Central Oregon.
— Bulletin staff reports

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irst Story and Heart of Oregon YouthBuild personnel secure a wall for a low-income family home during a ceremony Tuesday morning in Redmond. The combined programs help at-risk youths gain job

skills by building the home, which then becomes a reality for a low-income family.

Bend adds an State deciding if hurt tot
hour of parking should return to mother
for the holidays
By Scott Hammers
The Bulletin

Bulletin staff report
Bend added an extra hour of free parking
in its downtown parking garage during the
holiday shopping season.
The four-hour time limit began Nov. 25
and will extend through the rest of the year.
After that, the time limit will revert back to
three free hours.
People wanting to park in the garage longer than the four-hour limit will still need to
pay $5 for an all-day pass.
Street parking is still limited to two free
hours. The Mirror Pond parking lot will also
operate normally.
Brad Emerson, the Bend special projects
manager, said the city used to extend the
time limit for free downtown street parking
from two hours to three hours during the
holidays. He said that practice ended in 2006
after the Centennial Parking Garage Plaza
opened.

By Dylan J. Darling

Corralling a fastgrowing water weed
and stopping its spread
from four Central Oregon lakes will take indepth surveys, a variety
of aquatic plant treatments and a focused
education effort, weed
managers learned at a
Tuesday workshop in
Bend.
Already dealing with
Eurasian watermilfoil
in Washington and
Idaho, an irrigation
district manager and a
weed control company
owner gave this advice
to about 50 private,
county, state and federal officials who handle
weed problems.
And Eurasian watermilfoil, a slimy green
underwater weed, can
become a big problem.
“It just starts to dominate the water body,”
said Deb Mafera, invasive plant project manager for the U.S. Forest
Service.

The Oregon Department of Human
Services is investigating whether a 2year-old boy who was badly injured last
week should be returned to his mother
when he is released from the hospital.
Mason Jae Vernon, of Bend, was hospitalized Nov. 29 when the boy’s mother,
19-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Vernon,
brought him to St. Charles Bend with
what police described as “serious injuries.” He was subsequently flown to
Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy
Emanuel in Portland, where he was in
good condition Tuesday evening.
Bend Police have been investigating
the incident in an attempt to determine
if Mason’s injuries are the result of an
accident or abuse. Information as to the
specifics of his injuries have not been
released.
On Tuesday, Bend Police Lt. Ben
Gregory said DHS is also looking into

the matter, but that he was unaware of
the status of the agency’s investigation.
A DHS spokesman did not return a call
for comment Tuesday.
Gregory said police are continuing to
try to track down neighbors who may
have seen or heard anything on the day
Mason was injured. Tuesday evening,
detectives were scheduled to meet with
doctors who treated the boy to go over
medical reports, he said.
A man arrested the day Mason was
injured at the house where Mason and
Sarah Vernon live is still being held at
the Deschutes County Jail.
Jeffrey Scott Neeley was arrested
for assaulting Sarah Vernon in June,
and was taken into custody last week
for having contact with her in violation
of a court order. Neeley is scheduled to
appear in court Dec. 13 for a hearing to
consider revoking his probation.
— Reporter: 541-383-0387,
shammers@bendbulletin.com

Growing up from
shallow lake or river
bottoms, where water is
slow-moving, Eurasian
watermilfoil forms mats
on the surface. The
mats block out sunlight,
disrupting the growth of
native plants and changing the food supply for
fish.
The plant also can
tangle around boat
propellers and ensnare
swimmers.
“When it gets really
severe, there have been
accidents and drownings,” Mafera said.

Varied attack
Contending with
Eurasian watermilfoil at
Moses Lake, a Central
Washington reservoir,
Curt Carpenter, manager for the Moses Lake
Irrigation and Rehabilitation District, said such
a plan will be varied to
be effective.
“We use dredge,
mechanical harvest,
herbicide and hand pulling — there is more than
one tool you have to use
to be successful,” Carpenter said.
Over the past four
years, he said, the district has cut the amount
of Eurasian watermilfoil
from about 860 acres to
about 130 acres in the
6,800-acre lake.
A onetime aquarium
plant, Eurasian watermilfoil likely entered
Northwest waters by
people pouring out
fish tanks in the early
1970s.
See Weeds / C2

The Education Foundation for Bend-La Pine
Schools has received a
$20,000 grant from the
Fred Meyer Fund.
The money will go toward purchasing classroom equipment such
as interactive SMARTboards, iPods, iPads
and software. Teachers
will be able to apply for
the grants in March.

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John Fawcett, 11, has been playing the violin almost his entire life.
He started playing when he was
2. Now he’s playing with the Central Oregon Symphony.
“It’s a very creative instrument,”
said John, a fifth-grader at St.
Francis School in Bend. “You can
do a lot of stuff on it. If you like music, it’s a good instrument to play.”
John also plays for the Cascades
Classical Music Foundation, and

last year was a gold medalist in
the strings division of the organization’s regional competition,
competing against musicians of all
ages.
He practices about an hour a day,
and can discuss composers and
pieces of music with ease. His favorite composer is Beethoven. When
he was 9, his family went on a trip
to Poland, Austria and Germany,
and John got to see Beethoven’s
grave in Vienna.
See Schools / C2

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John Fawcett, 11, sits with his bass guitar in the music room at
St. Francis School in Bend on Tuesday morning.

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in the Police Log when such
a request is received. Any
new information, such as the
dismissal of charges or acquittal,
must be verifiable. For more
information, call 541-383-0358.
Bend Police Department
Redmond Police
Department

Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported and
an arrest made at 12:45 p.m. Dec.
5, in the 300 block of Northwest
Oak Tree Lane.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident was
reported at 12:06 p.m. Dec. 5, in the
area of Southwest Sixth Street and
Southwest Evergreen Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mail was reported stolen
at 11:48 a.m. Dec. 5, in the 600
block of Northwest Canyon Drive.

Prineville Police
Department

Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 6:56 a.m. Dec. 5, in the area of
North Main Street.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft with a loss of
$2,740 was reported at 9:13 a.m.
Dec. 5, in the area of Northeast
Third Street.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 2:20 p.m. Dec. 5, in the area of
Northeast Deedie Court.
Oregon State Police

Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident was
reported at 9:44 a.m. Dec. 6, in the
area of East state Highway 380 near
milepost 45.
Deschutes County
Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A tractor was reported
stolen at 11:22 a.m. Dec. 5, in the
1800 block of South U.S. Highway 97.

DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kathryn Deanne Powers,
64, was arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence of
intoxicants at 9:50 p.m. Dec. 5, in
the area of West state Highway 126
near milepost 108.

Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Damage to
a window was reported at 8:38
a.m. Dec. 5, in the 800 block of
Southwest 12th Street.

Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was
reported at 2:04 p.m. Dec. 5, in the
16400 block of William Foss Road,
La Pine.

Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was
reported at 9:03 a.m. Dec. 5, in the
51400 block of Highway 97 in La
Pine.

Weeds
Continued from C1
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spread from Washington
to Idaho and now to Oregon,
likely by clinging to the underside of boats hauled from
one lake to another, said Dave
Kluttz, owner of Lakeland
Restoration Services in Priest
River, Idaho.
In determining how to handle the plant, he said weed
managers will want to figure
out how best to preserve the
native plants already in a lake
while ridding it of the Eurasian
watermilfoil.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot like spraying a lawn
for dandelions,â&#x20AC;? Kluttz said.
He said aquatic herbicides
are key to clearing lakes of the
weed.
The Central Oregon lakes
harboring Eurasian watermilfoil are surrounded by public
land, Mafera said, meaning
there could be years of envi-

ronmental review before any
herbicides are added to the
water.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing we can go out
and do in the next year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so
what are we going to do in the
meantime?â&#x20AC;? Mafera said.
Already known to be in
East Lake and Crane Prairie and Haystack reservoirs,
a survey of about 35 Central
Oregon bodies of water this
year revealed that Eurasian
watermilfoil is in Suttle Lake
as well.
Next year the Central Oregon Aquatic Task Force
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; made up of officials from
the Oregon Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service,
Bureau of Reclamation, Portland General Electric and the
Crooked River Weed Management Area â&#x20AC;&#x201D; plans to do about
$12,000 worth of more surveys.
The surveys would check 30
more bodies of water for the
weed and examine how wide-

Fifth-grader John Fawcett walks with his bass guitar back to his classroom at St. Francis School
in Bend on Tuesday morning. Fawcett also plays the piano and violin.

Schools
Continued from C1
He also admires Mozart and
Chopin.
In addition to violin, he plays
piano, bass guitar and sings,
and is in the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marching band.
John is passionate about
basketball. This year, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
playing on both St. Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
fifth- and sixth-grade teams.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the way the game
flows,â&#x20AC;? John said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I like
how it feels when you shoot
the ball correctly. I like hearing that swish.â&#x20AC;?

spread Eurasian watermilfoil is at East and Suttle
lakes and Crane Prairie and
Haystack reservoirs, said
Berta Youtie, coordinator
of the Crooked River Weed
Management Area.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to do more indepth surveys of those four
lakes,â&#x20AC;? she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reporter: 541-617-7812,
ddarling@bendbulletin.com

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general interest.
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Other school notes: College announcements,
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reunion announcements.
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PAC
Continued from C1
A number of former mayors
have spoken out against the
project, and last month joined
with many other conservationists and business leaders to deliver a petition to City Hall asking the council to slow down
and re-evaluate its options.
In particular, those people
want the city to consider getting water from wells. Groundwater provides about half the
cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water supply, the majority of it during the summer
when demand is highest.
Woodward said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
been some interest from a few
opponents about running for
City Council, though she declined to say who they are. She
said one reason for starting
the PAC now is to give potential donors an opportunity to
write off their contributions on
their 2011 taxes.
Even though the name of the
PAC is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stop SWIPing Ratepayer Dollarsâ&#x20AC;? (with â&#x20AC;&#x153;SWIPâ&#x20AC;?
standing for â&#x20AC;&#x153;surface water
improvement projectâ&#x20AC;?), Woodward said she has issues with
other spending habits at the

city. She said the city hires too
many consultants to do work
that could be done in-house
for less.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The surface water improvement project is just kind of the
tip of the iceberg as a way the
city is doing business,â&#x20AC;? Woodward said.
Other people associated
with the committee include
Bob Woodward and Bruce
Aylward, an economist who
has been one of the most vocal
opponents of the project. Both
are named as PAC directors.
According to campaign finance information from the
Oregon Secretary of Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Office, the PAC had not raised
any money as of Tuesday.

The four councilors whose
seats are up for election are
Mayor Jeff Eager, Tom Greene,
Jim Clinton and Kathie Eckman. Of the four, only Clinton
has voted against the Bridge
Creek project.
Greene has announced he
will not run for re-election,
and instead is vying for a
spot on the Deschutes County
Commission.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reporter: 541-633-2160,
ngrube@bendbulletin.com

Born in South Dakota, John
moved to Bend with his family
when he was 1. His mother is
of Polish descent, and he says
he enjoys Polish traditions, especially around the holidays.
Both parents are doctors.
He has one younger brother.
John says he wants to become a veterinarian or dog
trainer. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also considering
a career in music, and wants
to keep playing basketball.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I could play basketball in
college, that would be sweet,â&#x20AC;?
John said.

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UO students reject
fee for new projects
EUGENE — Students at
the University of Oregon
have voted against a new fee
to renovate and expand the
student union and recreation
center. It would have been
$100 per term.
Student body President
Ben Eckstein says more
than 4,200 students voted
last week, and 57 percent
were against the Erb Memorial Union work, 52 percent
against the recreation center
work.
Eckstein told the Eugene
Register-Guard newspaper
that students absorbed a 9
percent tuition increase this
year, and the new fee may
have been too much.
The projects were expected to cost $160 million, with
$112 million from bonds repaid from the fee revenue.

Jeremy Ruark / The Seaside Signal

Emergency responders carry an injured female surfer to a waiting ambulance in Seaside on Tuesday after she was bitten while
surfing at Seaside Cove. Authorities are trying to determine if the bite was from a shark.

Surfer bitten by unknown animal
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — A woman
surfing off the Oregon coast
suffered a bite to her lower leg,
and authorities are trying to
determine whether a shark is
responsible.
The woman surfing at
Seaside suffered blood loss
and damage to her surfboard, but rescuers said her
injuries did not appear to be
life-threatening.
Another surfer helped the

woman to shore, witnesses
told KGW-TV. Other surfers
waved down Capt. Joey Daniels of Seaside Fire and Rescue and two other responders
just after 9 a.m. Tuesday and
found the woman lying on the
beach.
A physician was attempting
to stop the bleeding, Daniels
said. Climbing down from the
rocky shore, Daniels found unusual wounds on the woman’s
leg.

“You could tell there were
punctures and stuff that
weren’t normal,” Daniels
said. “She had some lowerleg tears, rips, lacerations. It
didn’t look like a lot of blood
was lost.”
The surfer was taken by
ambulance to a Seaside hospital, where a spokeswoman
said the injured woman asked
the hospital not to identify her.
She later was taken to a Portland hospital.

Seaside Fire and Rescue
said in a news release that
they had not pinpointed what
kind of animal bit the woman.
The place where the attack
took place, Seaside’s “cove,” is
a popular North Oregon Coast
surfing spot.
It’s also the place where
Douglas Niblack said a shark
rose under his longboard in
October and he found himself on its back for several
seconds.

Defense
in murder
trial blames
meth use
The Associated Press
ALBANY — Lawyers for
a Linn County man accused
of murder are arguing that he
stabbed his mother in the neck
because of a psychotic break
from years of methamphetamine use.
Defense lawyers say there’s
no dispute about what happened on Oct. 23, 2009 — only
a question of the mental health
of Josh Lee Shaddon, 33.
Shaddon is accused of killing Gerlene Thorne, 48, in
their Brownsville home, south
of Albany. She was found at
the foot of stairs with multiple
wounds. He fled but was arrested shortly afterward and
remained jailed without bail.
Prosecutor Heidi Sternhagen rested her case Monday. Defense attorneys Clark
Willes and Karen Johnson
Zorn have begun their arguments in the non-jury trial
before Judge Thomas McHill,
the Albany Democrat-Herald
newspaper reported.
The defense wants McHill
to find Shaddon guilty of the
reduced charge of manslaughter by diminished capacity or
guilty of murder except for insanity. Sternhagen contended
that Shaddon was clear-headed and deliberately stabbed
his mother.
“He chose his actions,” she
said. “This is not a case of a defendant being delusional.”
One defense witness, counselor Karen Sangiovanni, testified she saw Shaddon before
his mother’s death.
“He failed to see things accurately” and wanted to get
inpatient help, she said. “He
felt overwhelmed and couldn’t
stay focused. I saw he was
extremely paranoid and felt
persecuted.”
Sandy Minta, a licensed
psychologist who talked with
Shaddon before his mother’s
death, testified he told her he
began to hear and see things
after he stopped using methamphetamine in July 2009.
She said Shaddon refused
medication because of his
paranoia.

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Willamette locks
closed indefinitely
WEST LINN — The Corps
of Engineers says the Willamette Falls Locks are closed
indefinitely.
A spokesman for the
corps’ Portland division,
Scott Clemans, told The Oregonian newspaper the agency doesn’t have the money to
make needed repairs.
The 138-year-old locks
had been operating one day
a month. They were shut
down last week because corrosion left some of the gates
near failure.
The closure stranded two
dredges, three tugboats and
four barges owned by Wilsonville Concrete Products
on the upper portion of the

Willamette River.
The locks were built in
1873. They have seven gates
and four chambers to raise
or lower vessels around Willamette Falls at West Linn.

Wilsonville council
avoids layoffs
WILSONVILLE — The
Wilsonville City Council
approved spending cuts of
more than $1 million that
avoid layoffs.
The Oregonian newspaper
reported that Monday’s vote
accepts recommendations
from City Manager Bryan
Cosgrove.
They include turning over
operations of the wastewater
treatment plant to a contractor, cutting back on supplies
and services, reducing overtime and leaving two vacant
positions unfilled.

Springfield OKs gay
rights protections
SPRINGFIELD — The
Springfield City Council quickly and unanimously approved an ordinance Monday protecting
gays and lesbians from
discrimination.
The charter amendment
adds “sexual orientation” to
the list of protected classes,
which include race, religion,
age, disability and national
origin.
City Attorney Joe Leahy
told The Register-Guard
newspaper the gay amendment was a housekeeping
matter to restore a clause
mistakenly left out when the
discrimination section of the
charter was redrafted.
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he federal government wants Deschutes County to
give back $328,000 because it says the county didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
follow a grant requirement.

The county says the requirement was unclear, and it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
have to pay the money back.
Deschutes has decided to fight
the demand for repayment, with
letters, appeals to congressmen
and a planned meeting in D.C. next
month between Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives and Deschutes County
Commissioner Tammy Baney.
It all concerns wildfire prevention. Deschutes and Crook counties were awarded a $1.3 million
grant from FEMA in 2007 to clear
1,200 acres, including 630 in Deschutes and 570 in Crook, according
to Deschutes County Forester Joe
Stutler. Deschutes thought it could
use the money for clearing projects
anyplace within its Community
Wildfire Protection Plan Area, but
FEMA says it had to be used only
in much smaller so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;action
areas.â&#x20AC;?
Deschutes proceeded to clear
about 4,000 acres, far more than
the grant was designed to cover,
but some of them were not within
the action areas.
FEMA didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice, however,
despite regular reports from Deschutes County and repeat visits to
review the work. When it finally did
notice in the fall of 2010, the dispute
began and the work came to a halt.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The important part of the story
to me is that we did great work for
less than expected,â&#x20AC;? Baney told
The Bulletin, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and in looking for
government efficiencies, I think
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the right direction.â&#x20AC;?
While the conflict goes on,
wildfire prevention work financed
by FEMA is stalled. Clearing financed by subsequent FEMA
grants to Deschutes, Crook and
Klamath counties is also blocked.
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in no position to judge if the
paperwork supports the contentions
on either side of this argument. But
one thing is clear: Deschutes was
awarded money designed to clear
630 acres, which it did, but it also
cleared nearly 3,400 acres more.
For that it should be penalized?
Clearly a misunderstanding occurred, but FEMA took an awfully
long time to notice. It authorized
payments, which gave the county
no reason to doubt its understanding of what was permitted.
The amount of $328,000 is a
fraction of a drop in the bucket to
FEMA, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s counterproductive to spend lots of time and effort
on what appears to be a simple
misunderstanding.
Worst of all, important work of
wildfire prevention is stalled until
the bureaucracy can come to some
conclusion.

Compromise works for
new zone in Redmond

R

edmond officials have a vision for 70 acres on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
east side, one that came a
step closer to reality in mid-November after officials worked with
those in the neighborhood to create something everyone could live
with. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of compromise
that gives government a good
name.
Officials had two goals for the
property. The larger chunk, closer
to the railroad, is home to existing
manufacturing business, much of
which was already in place when
city zoning became a reality years
ago. Because it does not fit current
zoning standards, owners have difficulty expanding their businesses
when they need to. The area also
already includes some housing.
At the same time, City Manager
David Brandt says, officials believe
the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate economic health
lies not with the steel mills of the
world, but with small manufacturers, jewelry makers, bicycle makers
and the like. Yet those people sometimes have trouble acquiring the
capital they need to build new facilities and continue to live elsewhere.
A 44-lot subdivision separated

from the largely developed larger
piece will become the first bare
land in the city that specifically requires both a small manufacturing
business and a dwelling on a single
lot. The idea, Brandt says, is to give
small manufacturers and artisans
a place to get established at lower
cost than might be the case if they
have to live elsewhere. Retail sales
in the zone will be allowed only as
an adjunct of the manufacturing
businesses there.
Meanwhile, a large parcel that
separates the two manufacturing areas was left out of the zone
change because homeowners already there objected to it. And, officials agreed, the new zone will not
allow for stand-alone office space.
Zone changes all too often become a nightmare for those living
on the land affected by the new
rules, as lot sizes and usages shift
in ways they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not
likely to be the case here, where
city officials went out of their way
to assure that the concerns of all
were addressed. The result is a
demonstration of what officials
and neighbors can accomplish, if
all are willing to try.

Curry has itself to blame
By Thomas Huxley
his letter is regarding the Nov.
13 Bulletin front page â&#x20AC;&#x153;Special Reportâ&#x20AC;? titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Curry: a
county going broke,â&#x20AC;? and a similar
article in the Curry Coastal Pilot on
Nov. 16 titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Curry: a county in
crisis.â&#x20AC;?
Neither of these articles that together total nearly 5,000 words
ever mention the subject of county
growth, employee compensation or
benefits.
It is toward that end that the following facts are provided.
â&#x20AC;˘ Over the past decade, Curry
Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population has effectively
grown zero percent, remaining at
about 21,200.
According to Curry County Payroll & Fiscal Year Appropriation
Budgets:
â&#x20AC;˘ County average employee
numbers increased 14 percent during the two-year period of fiscal
years 2007-2008 to 2009-2010, from
191 to 217.
â&#x20AC;˘ Total general fund appropriations increased 33 percent during the four-year period of fiscal
years 2007-2008 to 2010-2011, from
$7,593,397 to $10,079,461.
â&#x20AC;˘ Sheriff general fund appropriations increased 39 percent during the four-year period of fiscal
years 2007-2008 to 2010-2011, from
$2,846,600 to $3,960,401.
In June 2008, the county negotiated a three-year contract with the
Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) resulting in total
wage increases of approximately
21 percent plus an increase of $152
per month toward employee health
insurance premiums. A similar
agreement was negotiated with the
Teamsters local union beginning in
July 2010.

T

IN MY VIEW
In July 2011, Curry County divested its Department of Home
Health and Hospice (HHH) at a
loss estimated at between $50,000
and $500,000. Last month citizens
received the following response
from commissioners to a question
asked in August 2011: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The (wage)
increase for HHH had to do with
a market salary study that they
(HHH) did that showed that their
clinical staff was underpaid compared to market. Salary schedules were implemented with the
2008/2009 Master Payroll ....â&#x20AC;? A
random check of several personnel confirmed a 24 percent wage
increase.
Now letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at the compensation/benefits currently provided to
Curry County employees and who
pays for them.
Employee pays:
â&#x20AC;˘ Social Security & Medicare
and FICA: 7.65 percent of base
wage/month.
Curry County (taxpayer) pays per
employee:
â&#x20AC;˘ Health insurance premium:
$1,000 to $1,085 per month. Increases to $1,160 July 1, 2012.
â&#x20AC;˘ Health insurance premium:
When husband and wife are both
employed, premium is doubled.
â&#x20AC;˘ Years of service bonus: 10
years 2.5 percent of base wage; 20
years 5 percent of base wage per
month.
â&#x20AC;˘ PERS (Public Employee Retirement System): 14 percent (average)
of gross wage per month.
â&#x20AC;˘ PERS employee portion paid by
county: 6 percent of gross wage per
month.
â&#x20AC;˘ PERS Tier I employees guar-

anteed 8 percent annual return on
their retirement account.
â&#x20AC;˘ MSA (Medical Savings Account
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Teamsters only): $50 per month.
â&#x20AC;˘ 12 paid holidays per year.
â&#x20AC;˘ 12 to 25 paid vacation days per
year depending on years of service.
â&#x20AC;˘ 12 paid sick days per year that
may be accrued if not used.
In a Pilot news article published
Nov. 2, 2011, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home Health &
Hospice transition going well,â&#x20AC;? former county Director Lori Kent refers to changes in the new employee
benefit packages that were necessary once the department became a
private entity.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the county, regular employees had health insurance coverage for the employee and family
members. With CHHH, employees
are required to pay a greater portion
of their health care coverage,â&#x20AC;? she
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a nonprofit organization, employees are not eligible for PERS
(Public Employees Retirement System). While a retirement program
has been established, the majority of the funding of the accounts is
through employee contributions,â&#x20AC;?
Kent said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The PERS program was an excellent benefit for our employees.
Unfortunately, agencies such as
ours cannot sustain the high costs of
such a benefit, and they really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
exist in the nongovernment sector,â&#x20AC;?
she said.
Why then should taxpayers be
burdened with costs that no other
employment sector can afford?
Oregon counties and state government have an addiction to growing bigger, an insatiable appetite for
our tax dollars, and are not too big
to fail.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thomas Huxley lives in Harbor.

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Grandstanding politicians are to blame, not the 1%
By Bradley Schiller
Los Angeles Times

T

he class war is on. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 99
percent of â&#x20AC;&#x153;usâ&#x20AC;? versus the 1 percent of â&#x20AC;&#x153;them.â&#x20AC;?
In the rhetoric of this war, we are
fighting the 1 percent because they
possess most of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealth,
bankroll their handpicked political
candidates, control the banks and get
million-dollar paychecks and billiondollar bailouts; yet they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay
enough taxes or invest their wealth in
creating American jobs. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;millionaires and billionairesâ&#x20AC;? President Obama has called out as needing to pony up more for progressive
reforms of our health care, banking,
tax and political systems. They are
the enemy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;usâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the 99 percent
who toil at low-wage jobs, hold underwater mortgages, face foreclosures,
suffer recurrent and protracted job
layoffs and plant closings, and yet
pay our fair share of taxes.

But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a flaw in this strategy.
The Occupy Wall Street movement
envisions the 1 percent as a monolithic cadre of entrenched billionaires
who have a firm and self-serving grip
on all the levers of the economy. But a
closer look at that elite group reveals
how untrue that perspective is.
Forbes magazine compiles a list of
the richest 400 Americans every year.
To get on that list, you must have at
least $1 billion of wealth. They are
the creme de la creme of the 1 percent
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; indeed, the top 0.0000013 percent
(!) of Americans. So who are these
dastardly people? The late Steve Jobs
was in that elite club this year. In his
earlier days, Jobs would have been
camped out with the OWS crowd,
probably passing around a joint.
Should we count him as one of â&#x20AC;&#x153;usâ&#x20AC;?
or one of â&#x20AC;&#x153;themâ&#x20AC;?? (And you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use
your iPhone or iPad to vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;them.â&#x20AC;?)
Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27-year-old Mark
Zuckerberg (No. 14 on the Forbes list),

whose Facebook innovation enables
the OWS movement to communicate
so easily. He and five other Facebook
entrepreneurs just joined the Forbes
400 this year. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d also quickly recognize among â&#x20AC;&#x153;themâ&#x20AC;? Sergey Brin,
Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, who became billionaires developing Google.
And, as they are sipping a latte to keep
warm, the OWS campers should also
reflect on whether Howard Schultz,
Starbucksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; founder and No. 330 on the
Forbes list, is with â&#x20AC;&#x153;usâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;them.â&#x20AC;?
Even more to the point is that all
of these club-400 elites were once
just like â&#x20AC;&#x153;us.â&#x20AC;? Jobs worked on the
first Apple computer in a garage on a
shoestring budget. He had vision, not
wealth, to propel him to fame and fortune. Oprah Winfrey (No. 139) rose
from poverty to TV queen through
determination, hard work and a
couple of lucky breaks. Even Warren
Buffett, No. 2 on the Forbes list, started out looking very much like just an-

other hardworking middle-class kid
with good Midwestern values.
These storied rises from â&#x20AC;&#x153;rags to
richesâ&#x20AC;? are what make America the
unique and prosperous nation it is.
Some critics would have us believe
that the American dream is dead. But
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a view purveyed by those without the vision, the grit, the energy or
the single-minded determination to
build a better mousetrap. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the
entrepreneurial spirit that drives competitive markets, that not only makes
the American dream come true for
some (the 1 percent) but also improves
life for the many (the 99 percent).
What really motivates the OWS
movement is not resentment against
the 1 percent but a sense of futility in grappling with a weak economy. With unemployment hovering
around 9 percent, and with all the
recurrent plant closings, foreclosures
and cutbacks in public services, there
is a lot of anger to vent. But class war-

fare isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the solution.
Our frustrations are more the product of Washington than Wall Street.
We have been promised a lot and received little. Obama (who made millions in book royalties the last few
years) sowed the seeds of disillusionment when he overpromised what
his February 2009 stimulus package
could deliver. A series of policy failures and political deadlocks has left
people feeling disenfranchised and
forgotten. Calling out millionaires
and billionaires as the culprits in
this economic saga is disingenuous
and ultimately self-defeating. Those
1 percenters are not an avaricious
â&#x20AC;&#x153;themâ&#x20AC;? but in reality the most entrepreneurial of â&#x20AC;&#x153;us.â&#x20AC;? If we had more of
them and fewer grandstanding politicians, we would all be better off.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bradley Schiller is a professor of
economics at the University of Nevada-Reno
and the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Economy Today.â&#x20AC;? He
wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

Maurice Norman, of
Prineville
April 14, 1918 - Dec. 3, 2011
Arrangements:
Baird Funeral Home,
541-382-0903
www.bairdmortuaries.com
Services:
A Celebration of life will
be held on Sat., Jan. 7,
2012, at the First Baptist
Church, 450 SE Fairview
St., Prineville. Time to be
announced at a later
date. A reception will
immediately follow.
Contributions may be made
to:

Redeemer House
Ministries, P.O. Box 304,
Grenada, CA 96038.

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Bundy
Dec. 11, 1941 - Nov. 21, 2011
Bill Bundy passed away
at age 69, from complications of chronic lung and
heart disease. Bill was a
30-year Bend resident, and
was an active
entrepreneur and
real
estate
developer,
developing
the
Sunset
View EsBill Bundy
tates and
Lost Tracks property, running a Yamaha/Kawasaki
store and owning an antiques store, among other
ventures. Bill was also an
avid collector of classic
cars, and participated in
auctions
and
shows
around the country.
Bill was born in Santa
Monica, California and attended Santa Monica High
School. It was during this
time he worked part-time
as a valet at the legendary
Romanoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant in
Hollywood and parked
cars for such celebrities as
Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Natalie Wood, and
many others. These interactions influenced Bill
greatly. His first job after
high school was in his
uncleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s machine shop, after which he landed a job
in
construction
and
quickly became a foreman.
In 1964, he bought into the
Allied Interstate Development Corporation which
installed the first computer and credit card systems for Wells Fargo and
other top banks, employing up to 230 people by the
time he sold the company
in 1980. During this time,
Bill also bought and raced
thoroughbred horses quite
successfully
and
also
owned a thoroughbred
training facility in Southern California.
Bill was known for his
great sense of humor, his
keen business sense and
his generosity, and willingness to help out his
friends and family. Though
he never had children of
his own, he was a father
figure to his step-children
and several children of
family friends.
Bill is survived by his
brother, Dennis; nephews,
Todd and Chad Bundy;
great-nephew,
Garrett
Reese, his aunt,
Josie
Bundy, and cousins, John
Hinkel,
Jim
Bundy,
Rhonda and Jennifer Del
Castillo, and Lisa Jewel.
A Celebration of Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
life will be held at the Old
Stone Church, 157 NW
Franklin Ave., in Bend, on
Saturday, December 10, at
10 a.m. In lieu of flowers,
Bill asked that donations
be made to Partners In
Care/Hospice at 2075 NE
Wyatt Ct., Bend, OR 97701.

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E
Deaths of note from around
the world:
Bill Tapia, 103: Ukulele virtuoso known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Duke of
Ukeâ&#x20AC;? who was credited with
putting the ukulele on the
map. Died Friday in his sleep
in Westminster, Calif.
Hubert Sumlin, 80: Blues guitarist whose soulful licks and
crackling solos were featured
on scores of hits for singer Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wolf during the 1950s and
1960s and who influenced later
work by Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Died Sunday in Wayne, N.J. He
had congestive heart failure.
Stanley Robertson, 85: Broke
color barriers as a pioneering
black network television program executive at NBC in the
1960s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and later as a
movie studio production executive. Died Nov. 16 of an apparent heart attack at his Los
Angeles home.
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65:
Philosopher, psychoanalyst
and biographer known for her
lives of two influential women,
Hannah Arendt and Anna
Freud. Died of pulmonary
embolism Thursday near her
home in Toronto.
Bill McKinney, 80: Character
actor whose most recognizable performance was as a
menacing hillbilly in the 1972
film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deliverance.â&#x20AC;? Died of
esophageal cancer Thursday
in Van Nuys, Calif.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; From wire reports

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Friedman
captured
essence of
Broadway
in photos
By Bruce Weber
New York Times News Service

Leo Friedman, whose
photograph of an ebullient
Carol Lawrence and Larry
Kert as lovebirds chasing
down a Manhattan street
became the enduring emblem of the musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;West
Side Storyâ&#x20AC;? and the signature image of a career
spent taking pictures of actors in action, died FEATURED
Friday at
his home OBITUARY
in Las Vegas. He was 92.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, said
his son, Eric.
Friedman was a ubiquitous presence in and
around New York theaters
in the 1950s and 1960s, a
peak period of Broadway
glamour that coincided
with the expanded professional use of 35 millimeter
photography, which made
still pictures better able to
depict movement.
Friedman, whose ambition as a boy had been to
act, made it his specialty to
capture actors in rehearsal
or in performance or in
motion for his camera â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in
other words, acting.
A freelancer, he shot for
magazines and newspapers, for press agents and
producers. Often, when
hired to take the official
photographs of a show,
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be an audience of one
as the actors, after a full
performance, would run
the show backward for
him, scene by scene.
By his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s count,
Friedman photographed
more than 800 shows, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silk Stockings,â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Fair Lady,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barefoot
in the Park,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fiddler on
the Roof,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cabaretâ&#x20AC;? and
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coco.â&#x20AC;?
He shot Laurence Olivier hoofing in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Entertainer,â&#x20AC;? Barbra Streisandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Broadway debut in â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Can
Get It for You Wholesale,â&#x20AC;?
Lucille Ball marching with
a bass drum in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wildcat,â&#x20AC;?
Sammy Davis Jr. mugging behind a hat during a
photo call; Richard Burton
as Hamlet and his wife,
Elizabeth Taylor, smooching on the set; Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse, back
to front in a dancersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clinch
in a rehearsal studio, their
cigarettes symmetrically
poised between their lips;
and a dazzling Lena Horne
in a white dress during a
production number from
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jamaica.â&#x20AC;?
In one especially remarkable shot, he caught
Eli Wallach, having been
tossed by Zero Mostel in
the 1961 production of Ionescoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absurdist comedy
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rhinoceros,â&#x20AC;? in midair, his
arms outstretched, his feet
splayed and flying upward,
the sole of one shoe pointed
directly at the camera.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eli Wallach is flying
through the air, and I just
clicked that shutter and I
got him right in the center
of the whole thing with
Zero pushing him,â&#x20AC;? Friedman said in a radio interview this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a
really great picture.â&#x20AC;?
The â&#x20AC;&#x153;West Side Storyâ&#x20AC;?
shot, which became the
cover of the cast album,
came after Friedman had
tried several settings and
ended up along a row of
tenements on West 56th
Street.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I made a mark on the
street, and I said to Carol:
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want Larry chasing you
up the street. When you hit
that mark, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at me
down here, look up, with
your head up,â&#x20AC;? he recalled.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I took.â&#x20AC;?
Friedman, the son of
Jewish immigrants from
Eastern Europe, was born
in Brooklyn in 1919.

Don Ryan / The Associated Press

Deb Austin, right, who has received an eviction notice, speaks in front of her house surrounded by other homeowners, neighbors and demonstrators in Portland on Tuesday. Following
tactics by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Seattle, Portland and Oakland, protesters
across the country are staging â&#x20AC;&#x153;Occupy Homesâ&#x20AC;? actions nationally to try to stop foreclosures.

SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Occupy
Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood.
Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces,
Occupy protesters across the
country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up
properties, signaling a tactical
shift for the movement against
wealth inequality. Groups in
more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions.
In Atlanta, protesters held
a boisterous rally at a county
courthouse and used whistles
and sirens to disrupt an auction of seized houses. In New
York, they marched through
a residential neighborhood in
Brooklyn carrying signs that
read â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foreclose on banks, not
people.â&#x20AC;? Southern California
protesters rallied around a
family of six that reclaimed
the home they lost six months
ago in foreclosure.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty clear that the
fight is against the banks,
and the Occupy movement is
about occupying spaces. So
occupying a space that should
belong to homeowners but belongs to the banks seems like
the logical next step for the
Occupy movement,â&#x20AC;? said Jeff
Ordower, one of the organizers of Occupy Homes.

Continuing crisis
The events reflect the protestersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lingering frustration
over the housing crisis that
has sent millions of homes into
foreclosure after the burst of
the housing bubble that helped
cripple the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy.
Nearly a quarter of all U.S. homeowners with mortgages are
now underwater, representing
nearly 11 million homes, according to CoreLogic, a real
estate research firm.
Protesters say that banks
and financial firms own abandoned foreclosed houses that
could be housing people.
Seattle has become a leader
in the anti-foreclosure movement as protesters took over
a formerly boarded-up duplex
last month. They painted the
bare wood sidings with green,
black and red paint, and
strung up a banner that says

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Occupying a space
that should belong
to homeowners but
belongs to the banks
seems like the logical
next step.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jeff Ordower, Occupy
Homes organizer

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Occupy Everything â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No
Banks No Landlords.â&#x20AC;?
While arrests have already
been made in a couple of
squatting cases in Seattle and
Portland, it remains to be seen
how authorities will react to
this latest tactic.
In Portland, police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aware that the movement
called for people to occupy
foreclosed homes, but said
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to distinguish between the people who would
squat in homes as a political
statement and those that do it
for shelter.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The vacant property issue
is of concern in cities nationwide,â&#x20AC;? Simpson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll
treat them all as trespassers.â&#x20AC;?
In Seattle, protesters took
over a boarded-up warehouse
slated for demolition last
weekend. In an announcement, the protesters said they
planned to make the warehouse into a community center, and hosted a party the
night they opened the building. Police moved in soon after, arresting 16 people in the
process of clearing it out.
Seattle police spokesman
Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said his
department sees squatting
in private properties as the
same violation of trespassing
Occupy Seattle made when it
camped in a downtown park.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no different than when
people were trespassing (in
the park),â&#x20AC;? Whitcomb said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went nights and days, letting people camp in the park.
We relied on education and
outreach, rather than enforcing the law to the letter.â&#x20AC;?
Atlanta protesters took a
more aggressive approach
in trying to disrupt the home
auction. The auction went on
but the whistles and sirens

made it difficult for the auctioneers to communicate, said
Occupy Atlanta spokesman
Tim Franzen.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how many
homes we saved for one more
month during the holiday season,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was kind of a
Christmas gift to the people.â&#x20AC;?

Moving back in
In Riverside, Calif., Art de
los Santos arrived in a U-Haul
with assorted furniture and
about three dozen supporters at his former three-bedroom, three bathroom home.
He broke the lock and moved
back in.
Reclaiming his old home
is his last resort to get the attention of bank JP Morgan
Chase after he applied three
times for a loan modification
to no avail.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting down to my
last option,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing
seems to work. Maybe if I protest, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get their attention.â&#x20AC;?
The home, which was foreclosed on, is sitting empty
while he, his wife and four
children, ages 7 to 11, are
squeezed into an Orange
County rental apartment. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
also renting a storage unit.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad because you have
all these memories there,â&#x20AC;?
said the 46-year-old. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My
kids were running around the
neighborhood on their bikes.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice little community.â&#x20AC;?
Tom Kelly, spokesman for
JPMorganChase, had no immediate knowledge of de los
Santosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; case and could not
comment, but noted that he is
trespassing.
New York protesters introduced members of a homeless
family at the end of their rally
and said they plan renovate
and clean up the house so the
family can live in a house they
said had been abandoned by a
bank.
In Portland, a press conference was held at the home of
a woman facing foreclosure
next March. She vowed to
stay in her house until authorities take her out.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We belong here,â&#x20AC;? said Deb
Austin, who said she fell behind in payments after a cancer diagnosis and after her
husband lost her second job.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not leaving.â&#x20AC;?

Ashland hotel under investigation after
toxic water discharged into storm drain
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
ASHLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A downtown Ashland hotel is under
investigation for illegally discharging water containing
potentially fish-killing toxics
into Ashland Creek when its
heating and air-conditioning
system malfunctioned recently, authorities said.
The Ashland Springs
Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heating and air-conditioning unit overflowed on
Nov. 19, causing water treated
with algae-killing chemicals
to flush out of the unit, down
a drain and into the street
outside the hotel, authorities
said.
The water then flowed into
a city storm drain that flows
directly into Ashland Creek
near the Main Street bridge,
city officials said.

The water contains chemicals listed by the federal
Environmental Protection
Agency as toxic and labeled
as such on the containers,
Ashland police Sgt. Bob
Smith said.
The white, foamy discharge was first discovered
by Steve Ross, Southern Oregon Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-director
of campus public safety, and
later that day by an Ashland
police officer, who traced it
to the hotel, Smith said. The
discharge was then stopped,
Smith said.
The hotel or an individual
there could face a charge of
placing offensive substances
in water, which is a Class A
misdemeanor punishable by
a fine of up to $6,250, Assistant City Attorney Doug Mc-

Geary said Monday.
Hotel General Manager
Don Anway said the there
were two incidents of water
flowing into the storm drain
that day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; once during the
malfunction and later when
hotel maintenance crews
were cleaning up.
The system had not yet
been permanently fixed to
ensure no repeat of the incident, but hotel managers
were looking into it, said
Anway, who was out of state
when the spill occurred.
Neither police nor city officials at the time contacted
the state Department of Environmental Quality or the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife about the spill,
officials from those agencies
said.

USFS draws line against invasive species
By The Associated Press
The U.S. Forest Service
is intensifying its efforts to
protect national forests from
invasive species and diseases that kill trees, promote
wildfires and threaten water
supplies.
Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary for Natural
Resources Arthur “Butch”

Kyle Mills / Lewiston Tribune

A blue sky surrounds roofers as they cling to the steep pitch of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lewiston, Idaho, on Monday.

Blazer said Tuesday that invasive species cost the national economy more than
$100 billion annually, and the
problem is getting worse as
warming temperatures allow
invasive species to spread.
Among the steps the policy sets out are creating a
national database for infestations and control efforts,

requiring loggers and other
contractors to take steps to
control invasive species, and
working with neighboring
landowners.
Invasive Species coordinator Mike Ielmini says the
policy will be a foundation
to build a stronger program,
which to date has been
fragmented.

Bend’s Enyart
among inductees
NEW YORK — Oregon State football legend and longtime Bend
resident Bill Enyart
was among 16 players
and coaches honored
Tuesday night at induction ceremonies for the
College Football Hall of
Fame.
The ceremonies,
hosted by the National
Football Foundation,
took place at the Waldorf-Astoria New York.
The 2011 Bowl Subdivision Hall of Fame
class was announced
in May. Enshrinement
ceremonies are planned
for July 13-14, 2012, at
the College Football Hall
of Fame in South Bend,
Ind. Included in the 2011
class are stars such as
1995 Heisman Trophy
winner Eddie George of
Ohio State and Florida
State’s Deion Sanders, who starred as a
defensive back for the
Seminoles from 1985
to 1988.
Nicknamed “Earthquake” for his thundering running style,
Enyart was a first-team
All-America running
back in 1968 and a twotime all-Pac-8 selection
for the Beavers. As a
junior he played for the
1967 Oregon State team
known as the “Giant Killers,” who defeated No.
2 Purdue and No. 1 USC
and tied No. 2 UCLA.
In 1968, Enyart set
single-season school
records for rushing
attempts (293), rushing yards (1,304) and
touchdowns (17) that
stood for more than
30 years. He also established OSU records
of 50 carries and 299
yards in a 1968 game
against Utah.
Enyart was selected
in the 1969 NFL draft
by the Buffalo Bills. He
played three seasons for
the Bills and the Oakland
Raiders.
More on the College
Football Hall of Fame
induction ceremonies,
D3.
— Staff and wire report

Boise St., others
to join Big East
NEW YORK — The
Big East’s long-awaited
additions are set, with
more rebuilding to
come.
The conference is
preparing to announce
the additions of Boise
State and San Diego
State as football-only
members and Houston,
Central Florida and SMU
for all sports as soon
as today, a source with
knowledge of the situation told The Associated
Press. The five schools
will join in 2013.
The source spoke
Tuesday on condition
of anonymity because
details were still being
worked out with the
schools and plans for
an announcement were
being completed.
The Big East has
been trying to rebuild
as a 12-school football
conference since Syracuse and Pittsburgh
announced they would
be moving to the ACC
and West Virginia announced it was leaving
for the Big 12. TCU also
reneged on a commitment to join the Big East
and instead accepted an
invite to the Big 12.
The Big East has also
been pursuing Navy and
Air Force as footballonly members, but the
military academies are
not yet ready to commit
to the conference, the
source said.
— The Associated Press

By Robert Husseman
The Bulletin

Bend High and Mountain View will
play three Civil War boys basketball
games this season. Bragging rights and Class 5A
Intermountain Conference supremacy may not be the
only things up for grabs.
The Lava Bears and Cougars may be playing to shape
the Class 5A state championship picture.
“It’s as intense as it’s been in my 12 years,” Mountain
View coach Craig Reid says about the rivalry.
While veteran Bend High coach Don Hayes says, “The
Civil War doesn’t change in my mind from year to year ... it’s
always been a huge game,” he is quick to acknowledge the
stakes in the context of Class 5A.
“(The Cougars) have had a run of success, and we’ve had
a run of success before then,” says Hayes, the dean of Central Oregon basketball coaches in his 22nd season at Bend

Andy Tullis /
The Bulletin

High. “It’s going to be pretty intense (this year), but in a
good way.
Mountain View was the Class 5A state runner-up in 2010
and made it to last season’s state tournament before bowing
out in consolation play. Reid’s son, James, returns for his senior season as a second-team all-state point guard to lead what
Craig Reid calls an “extremely athletic” Cougars team this
season.
“This is the most athletic group I’ve had in my 12 years,”
the Mountain View coach says. “Our goal is to win a state
championship this year. I think it’s realistic.”
To do so, Mountain View must get by Bend, which swept
the Cougars in three games last season and went on to place
fifth at the 5A state tournament at the University of Oregon.
Senior Hayden Crook is Bend’s only returning starter, an
all-IMC guard who “can score 20 points easily any given
night,” according to Hayes.
See Preview / D4

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Golfers tee-off on the ninth hole at Juniper golf club in Redmond Tuesday in unseasonably warm and sunny weather.

Moment in the sun
• Central Oregon golf courses are taking advantage of some unseasonably nice weather
By Zack Hall
The Bulletin

Aspen Lakes Golf Course is currently
hosting about 15 rounds per day.
That does not seem like much, at least
until you compare it with what the Sisters
facility hosted in December 2010: Two.
And that’s not an average.
“We only did two rounds for the entire
month of December 2010,” says Josh McKinley, Aspen Lakes’ interim head professional.
“Yes, that was a TOTAL of two.”
Central Oregon’s recent run of seasonably cool but sunny, dry weather has produced a relative windfall at some local golf

TEE TO
GREEN
courses.
Well, “windfall” might be overstating it a
bit. But playable weather, a rarity this time
of year, has enticed at least some golfers out
onto the course.
“We are getting a little more play than
normal,” says McKinley, adding that course
conditions at Aspen Lakes are better than
what many would expect on the doorstep of

Christmas.
“The course is in good shape, playing
firm and fast, and the greens are good for
this time of year,” McKinley observes.
Because of recent cold morning temperatures, most golf courses in the area are under a frost delay until at least 11 a.m. But after that, golfers appear to be taking advantage of the unfrozen — albeit largely beige
— turf at a handful of courses that stay open
during the winter.
We’re not talking about record numbers
of golfers, but surprisingly many at a time
when sleigh bells should be ringing.
See Sun / D5

NATIONAL FINALS RODEO

Mote breaks through,
wins sixth round at NFR

Bob Click / For The Bulletin

Bobby Mote scores 87 points while riding Nutrena’s Wise Guy to win the sixth
round of the bareback riding at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas on
Tuesday night. With four rounds to go Mote is third in the average.

Bulletin staff report
$28,558 and moved the fourLAS VEGAS — Bobby Mote Inside
time world champion ever closer
• Complete to the $2 million mark in career
is making a charge.
results
Shut out of the money
earnings. And his score boosted
from
through the first four rounds
him into third place in the averTuesday’s age standings in the 15-rider
of the Wrangler National Fisixth
nals Rodeo, the Culver cowboy
NFR bareback field.
round
cashed in Tuesday for the secThrough six rounds of the 10of the
ond night in a row — and he
round finals, Mote has an agNational
cashed in big.
gregate score of 496.0. He ranks
Finals
With a score of 87 on a horse
behind only world standings
Rodeo,
named Nutrena’s Wise Guy,
and average leader Kaycee Field
D2
Mote took first place in the
of Utah (521.5) and Steven Dent
bareback competition durof Nebraska (499.5) in the avering the sixth round of the 53rd
age standings. The top eight in
annual NFR at the Thomas & Mack the average after the final round will
Center.
earn bonus payouts; first place is worth
His prize — $17,885 — pushed his $45,865.
See Mote / D4
total winnings for the 2011 NFR to

Listings are the most accurate available. The Bulletin is not responsible
for late changes made by TV or radio stations.

S
B
Skiing
• Ligety of U.S. rallies to
win World Cup giant slalom:
Ted Ligety turned in a dazzling
second run in frigid conditions
to capture a World Cup giant
slalom. The three-time overall
GS champion flew down the
course in Beaver Creek, Colo., in
a combined time of 2 minutes,
40.01 seconds on Tuesday,
holding off Marcel Hirscher of
Austria by 0.69 seconds. Kjetil
Jansrud of Norway was third.
Ligety entered the final run trailing France’s Alexis Pinturault by
0.14 seconds. But Ligety easily
made up the time to win his 10th
World Cup race. Pinturault made
an early mistake and took fourth.

Football
• Police have no plans to
look again at Suh crash: Portland police have no plans to
further investigate a car accident
involving Detroit Lions defensive
tackle Ndamukong Suh after two
women claimed they suffered
injuries in the wreck. The two
women, who were not identified
in a police report, came forward
a day after the early Saturday
morning accident to say they
had been injured. The police report was amended to include the
claims. Suh, who went to Grant
High School in Portland and later
played for Nebraska, is currently
serving a two-game NFL-imposed suspension for stomping
on Green Bay Packers guard
Evan Dietrich-Smith during a
Thanksgiving Day game. He is
not allowed to take part in team
activities while on suspension.
• Seattle rookie G Moffitt
suspended 4 games by NFL:
Seattle Seahawks rookie guard
John Moffitt was suspended for
four games without pay for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.
The league announced the suspension on Tuesday. Moffitt will
serve the suspension beginning
immediately, even though he is
currently on injured reserve and
out for the season with a right
knee injury. The specifics of why
Moffitt was suspended were not
released.
• 49ers reach deal for parking near proposed stadium: The
San Francisco 49ers removed
another major hurdle standing
in the way of the team’s plans
for a new stadium in Silicon
Valley. The owners of an amusement park that sits next to the
proposed stadium site in Santa
Clara announced a deal Tuesday
that resolves parking concerns
that had bottled up the stadium
plan. San Francisco 49ers
President Jed York called it an
important step in the project.
The city of Santa Clara and the
team announced last week that
they had secured $850 million in
funding for the stadium.
• Snyder runaway pick as
AP Big 12 coach of year: Bill
Snyder retired six years ago
convinced that he was done with
coaching college football. He
wanted to spend more time with
his family, make up for all of his
kids’ ballgames and ballets that
he missed while building Kansas
State to unprecedented heights.
The 72-year-old coach came
back to the sidelines three years
ago rejuvenated. And in that
short of time he did the unthinkable: Snyder returned his oncemighty program to the national
consciousness. On Tuesday,
he was the runaway pick as the
AP’s Big 12 coach of the year.
• Massachusetts title lost
when player celebrates winning TD: A Massachusetts high
school lost a state championship game because a player

raised his arm in triumph as he
ran for what would have been a
go-ahead touchdown. The gesture by Cathedral High School
quarterback Matthew Owens in
Saturday’s Division 4A Super
Bowl drew a penalty. The referee
was enforcing a sportsmanship
rule that prohibits players from
celebratory or taunting behavior
while scoring a touchdown. The
18-year-old senior was racing
for a score as time wound down
in the game against Blue Hills
Regional Technical School. Video showed Owens briefly raising
his left arm as he approached
the end zone. The penalty nullified the touchdown. Cathedral
lost the game 16-14.

Motor sports
• JGR to replace Denny
Hamlin’s crew chief: Mike Ford
was let go Tuesday as crew chief
for Denny Hamlin after a disappointing season in which the duo
failed to contend for the championship. “I’m kind of relieved,”
Ford told The Associated Press.
“It had been dragging on for so
long, I’m actually relieved there’s
finally a resolution.” Ford’s
future with the team had been
subject to speculation most of
the season, largely because of
how far Hamlin’s performance
had dropped from 2010, when
he nearly dethroned Jimmie
Johnson for the Sprint Cup title.

Hockey
• NHL discusses player safety at board meeting: NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said
there is not enough data yet to
draw conclusions about the link
between concussions and a degenerative brain ailment that has
been found in four dead hockey
players. Player safety was a major topic Tuesday as the league
wrapped up its two-day Board
of Governors meeting in Pebble
Beach, Calif. It came a day after
The New York Times reported
that former New York Rangers
enforcer Derek Boogaard suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, an ailment related
to Alzheimer’s disease.

Boxing
• Thomas Hearns tops
the new Hall of Fame class:
Thomas “Hitman” Hearns, the
first man to win titles in four
divisions, tops a list of 13 people
elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum.
Hearns, who won five titles
altogether, compiled a 155-8
amateur record and was 61-5-1
with 48 knockouts as a pro. Also
selected were: Mark Johnson, a
two-division champion; ring announcer Michael Buffer; trainer
Freddie Roach; broadcaster Al
Bernstein; and journalist Michael
Katz.
• Runner who froze feet
told police he was upset: An
All-American cross-country
runner from the University of
Alaska Anchorage who emerged
from the woods with frozen feet,
which later had to be amputated,
told authorities he had gone for
a run in the cold because he was
despondent. Marko Cheseto
of Kenya disappeared from the
university Nov. 6 and was found
three days later suffering from
hypothermia and severe frostbite
to his feet. A university police
report obtained by The Associated Press says Cheseto told
police he was “feeling unhappy”
and “having to struggle to get
through life” when he went for a
run and passed out under a tree.
He said when he awoke, his feet
were frozen. Cheseto made his
way to a hotel, where he got help.
— The Associated Press

Winnipeg Jets Bryan Little, left, and Andrew
Ladd celebrate after Little scored to put the
Jets ahead of Boston during the third period of
Tuesday’s game in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

By Ralph D. Russo
The Associated Press

Charlie Neibergall / The Associated Press

Tim Tebow has completed just 48 percent of his passes, but he is 6-1 as the starting quarterback for Denver.

The Tebow experiment
• Retired scramblers weigh in on the debate on the Broncos’ quarterback
By Arnie Stapleton

NFL

The Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Nobody knows what will come of the
Tim Tebow experiment, not even
those scrambling ramblers who
came before him.
Yet it seems like everybody
wants to talk about it.
Retired QBs who made a living with their legs, and who also
turned the NFL on its ear in their
day, have strong opinions about
what’s happening in Denver,
where Tebow has led the once
lowly Broncos to six wins in his
seven starts.
Randall Cunningham loves it.
Steve Young hates it.
Bobby Douglass admires it.
While they debate whether
Tebow can morph into a prototypical pocket passer, they’re all pulling hard for the Broncos’ quirky
quarterback who defies his messy
mechanics and flawed footwork
with grit and last-minute magic.
“I think what we all ought
to do is enjoy the circus while
it’s in town,” suggests another
former NFL quarterback, Joe
Theismann.

He just wins
Tebow has brought the option
back to the NFL and while he usually struggles for much of the day
to move his team downfield, he
keeps coming up big in crunch
time, guiding the Broncos to second-half comeback wins against
the Dolphins, Jets, Raiders, Chargers and Vikings since taking over
as the starter two months ago.
On Sunday, he won a shootout in Minnesota, propelling the
Broncos (7-5) into a first-place tie
with Oakland atop the AFC West.
“You’ve got Aaron Rodgers,
you’ve got Drew Brees, you’ve
got Tom Brady that set a standard
of excellence in football that we
haven’t seen,” said Theismann,
now an NFL Network analyst.
“What makes 2011 so unique is
we have seen quarterback play in
this league at such a high extreme
and in Tim’s case, the bottom rung
when it comes to completions.”
And yet the Broncos are also in
the playoff hunt in this pass-happy league because of an old-fashioned formula based on stout defense and a strong ground game.
“That defense is as good as any
in football right now,” Theismann
said. “The offense doesn’t turn
the ball over. There’s been one
interception in seven games. I say
this tongue-in-cheek: The way
Tim throws the ball sometimes,
nobody has a shot at getting it,
his guy, the defenders. It’s either
bounce it in the ground or throw it
in the third row.”
Tebow is completing just 48 percent of his passes.
“And what’s his winning percentage?” retorts Cunningham.
It’s 85.7 percent, second only to
Rodgers, whose Packers are perfect at 12-0.
Still, Broncos boss John Elway
won’t publicly commit to Tebow
for 2012 and beyond. Coach John
Fox, who told NFL.com last month
that Tebow would be “screwed” if
they were running a conventional
offense, is living in the moment,
not focused on the future.
“The guys wins. How can you
not be a fan of that?” Fox said. “He
does it with his feet, with his arm,
just with his competitive greatness, really. That’s what you’re
looking for in a quarterback.”
The Broncos have decided not
to try to fix Tebow’s throwing
troubles now but to try to accentuate what he already does well,

which is running a ball-control,
low-risk, no-frills offense heavy
on the option while sprinkling in
some downfield passes.
“He’s in a sweet spot right now,”
said Young, “but I don’t know if
it’s developing him to go do it longterm in the NFL.”

A championship QB?
Tebow is coming off his best
passing performance as a pro
— 10 of 15 for 202 yards and two
TDs — but Young would like to
see him sling it 20-25 times every
Sunday.
“I learned the hard way what
the job in the NFL was,” said
Young, who came into the league
as a scrambler and left as a pocket
passer with a championship and a
ticket to the Hall of Fame. “I didn’t
know what that job was and it
wasn’t natural to me and I like to
just run around and make plays.
“But it’s not championship football. It can be winning football,
but it’s not championship football,” Young said. “And so I had to
learn the job, and the job is a Ph.D.
in studying defenses and the ability — and some of it’s natural — to
deliver the football.”
There’s the rub. Does Tebow really need to be a great passer?
“My first year, I was no more
accurate than he was,” said Cunningham, who was a 42 percent
passer as a rookie but finished
his career at 56.6 percent and was
one of the most exciting players of
his day.
Young worries that the option offense is stunting Tebow’s
growth.
“We really haven’t learned anything,” Young said. “We knew he
was good at that.”
Young said he fears the Broncos will head into the offseason
still clueless as to whether Tebow
can really throw the ball and thus
they’ll decide to draft another
quarterback, “and then I’m going
to say, ‘Well, why didn’t we spend
that time last year seeing if he
could really do this job?’ ”
The answer to that question: Because he’s winning. So says Douglass, the Bears’ scrambling quarterback from 1969 to 1975 who
was a career 43 percent passer.
“You have to make a decision:
Can we put in some of the stuff
that he’s real comfortable with
plus create all these problems for
the defense?” said Douglass. “And
then, are we better off sacrificing
some of the things that he could
be learning if we didn’t do that?
Obviously, they have made that
decision.”
Although they’ve slowed his
growth as a passer, they haven’t
stunted it, Douglass suggested.
Cunningham, who spent 16 seasons in the NFL, said the results
speak for themselves.
“The bottom line is the man
wins games. I’m probably his
biggest fan,” Cunningham said.
“When I look at him, I see a large
Michael Vick. People tell Tim what
he can’t do; he defies the odds. He
doesn’t do it in a way that everybody else does it. He doesn’t do it
like Tom Brady or my man Drew
Brees. But let me tell you something: At the end of the game, it’s
always exciting and he comes out
ahead.”

Do the legs go?
Eventually, all scramblers are
forced to rely more on their arm.
Age and injuries catch up.
Tebow ran the ball 22 times two
weeks ago, more than any NFL

quarterback since 1950, prompting Vikings coach Leslie Frazier
to crack that he’d like to get his
star tailback Adrian Peterson that
many touches.
The Broncos dispute the notion
they’re putting Tebow in harm’s
way with so many designed quarterback runs, insisting he’s susceptible to bigger hits in the pocket.
Young’s not worried about
Tebow’s health.
“No, he’s a bull,” Young said.
“Physically, he’s as ready to go
take that beating as anyone in the
league, running backs, anybody.
Now, can you transition from running somebody over to then dropping back and reading the zone
blitz and drop off the ball to the
hot read? I mean, that’s the transition he has to get used to, but I’m
not worried about him. The guy’s
built for it.”
Theismann agrees that “your
vulnerability to big shots in the
pocket are greater than outside
the pocket. But when you start to
tuck and run, somebody’s going to
come in and just say, ‘Hey, this is
my shot at Tim Tebow and I’m going to take it.’
“And my bet is he’ll get up. But
after how many can you get up?”
Young said he thinks Tebow’s
biggest problem in the passing game is that his head’s
swimming.
“So, I just got a feeling that
yeah, maybe he’s not a 70 percent passer but he’s not 45. And
so I just feel like as he plays more
and gets more opportunity, he’ll
throw the ball better as he relaxes
more and gets more reps,” Young
said. “But that’s what I’m worried
about with him. I feel like it’s a disservice if he’s not getting the reps
throwing the ball.”
Douglass disagrees.
“You have to use his talents,” he
said. “I believe you have to use his
physicality, his ability as a runner and the physicality is the size
which means he can take some
punishment, maybe run through
a guy once in a while.”

Will the option last?
Like they do with everything
else, opponents will eventually
decipher the option, critics say.
“They kind of have. It’s not
flourishing. Let’s be honest,”
Young said. “But you let Tim hang
around, he’ll beat you. He will
beat you. There’s nobody I can
say that more emphatically about
than Tim Tebow. If he’s around at
the end, you’re dead.”
While Tebow is diplomatic,
saying he’ll do whatever is asked
of him, Young thinks in his heart
of hearts, Tebow wants to be
groomed into a passer and not
run the same offense he did in
college.
“I believe he would rather take
the chance of failing, even miserably, and dropping back and really throwing the ball and playing
NFL quarterback,” Young said.
“And I think the Broncos don’t believe he can do it. John Fox, what
did he say, he’d be screwed if he
does that? That’s a pretty strong
statement, right?
“The Broncos are saying he
can’t play quarterback traditionally so we’ll just fiddle faddle
around here for a little while but
long term we’re not committed to
this. It’s almost like they’ve made
it a little bit of a sideshow.”
In that case, Theismann said,
grab the popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show.
“He certainly is. Why can’t we?”
Theismann said. “I call it Cirque
du Soleil. It’s in town.”

NEW YORK — Jake Scott
had a promise to keep.
The former Georgia star
doesn’t make many trips to
the mainland from his home
in Hanalei, Hawaii, a small
coastal town on the island of
Kauai.
He made an exception, however, for the College Football
Hall of Fame induction Tuesday because his late friend Jim
Mandich made him vow to do
so.
“He got me before it went
down,” Scott said Tuesday,
referring to the death in April
of his former Miami Dolphins
teammate. “So I agreed to do it
and that’s why I’m here.”
Scott, along with Heisman
Trophy winner Eddie George,
former Florida State star
Deion Sanders and retired
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr
are among the latest class of
16 players and coaches to be
inducted into College Hall of
Fame by the National Football
Foundation.
The group also includes
former Air Force coach Fisher
DeBerry; Alabama defensive
lineman Marty Lyons; Miami
defensive lineman Russell
Maryland; Texas defensive
lineman Doug English; Florida receiver Carlos Alvarez;
Oregon State fullback Bill
Enyart; Nebraska guard Will
Shields; Minnesota’s Sandy
Stephens, who was inducted
posthumously; West Virginia
linebacker Darryl Talley;
Oklahoma halfback Clendon
Thomas; Arizona defensive
lineman Ron Waldrop; and
Michigan State receiver Gene
Washington.
Scott led the Southeastern
Conference in interceptions in
1967 and ’68 and his 16 picks
still stands as the Georgia record. He went on to a stellar
nine-year NFL career with
Miami and Washington. He
was the MVP of the 1973 Super Bowl, which wrapped up
the Dolphins’ perfect season.
Mandich, a College Hall of
Famer from Michigan, was a
tight end on those Dolphins’
teams and Scott’s roommate.
He was in the hospital dying of
cancer earlier this year when
he called Scott and made a
request.
“He was going down for
the count with cancer, and he
said, ‘Would you do me a favor?’ And I said, ‘Jim, I’ll do
anything you want me to do.’
He says, ‘If you get in the College Hall of Fame, will you attend?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I’ll do
anything for you.’
“I thought it was going to be
something simple,” Scott said
with a chuckle.
Scott has built up a reputation as something of a recluse,
the J.D. Salinger of defensive
backs. Though he certainly
doesn’t come across as a
misanthrope.
“Somebody said, you’re hiding out,” he said. “I said no I
just wasn’t there.”
Scott was sitting next to
Sanders on the dais during
the news conference with the
other Hall of Famers — that
is, when “Primetime” finally
showed up about 15 minutes
late.
“First of all I’d like to thank
God for allowing me to be
here,” Sanders said. “I am so
exhausted I just was on a redeye flight from New York, I’m
saying New York, from L.A.
You can tell I’m still asleep
right now. This suit put on itself, but I still think it looks
pretty darn good.”
When Sanders was done
thanking his family, coaches
— he said former Florida State
defensive coordinator Mickey
Andrew taught him everything he knows about playing
cornerback — and teammates
for helping him get to the hall
of fame, it was Scott’s turn to
speak.
“Well, I want to thank Deion for not speaking 30 or 40
minutes like he usually does,”
Scott said, getting a hearty
laugh from the crowd gathered in the ballroom.

D4

THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011

Preview

PREP ROUNDUP

Storm hold off Outlaws;
improve record to 3-0
• Summit takes a 74-61 win over Sisters
Bulletin staff report
Summit did not shoot the
ball especially well — the
home team went 26 of 65
from the field, including one
of 16 from beyond the threepoint line — but the host
Storm found a way to win
against Sisters.
Kristen Parr led all scorers with 18 points, and Raja
Char chipped in 17 points
as Summit defeated the
Outlaws, 74-61, in a nonconference girls basketball
matchup at Summit High on
Tuesday night.
The Storm took a 36-30
halftime lead despite early
foul trouble and initial struggles shooting.
“A big key for us is finishing (plays),” Summit coach
Ryan Cruz said. “We didn’t
finish around the basket that
well in the first half.”
That changed dramatically
in the third quarter, as the
Storm outscored the Outlaws
18-5. Summit extended its
lead to 21 points in the fourth
quarter.
Four Outlaws players
scored in double figures on
the night: Taylor Nieri (16
points), Elise Herron (12
points), Claire Henson (11
points) and Carissa Kernutt
(10 points).
Sarah Edwards added 14
points and 14 rebounds for
the Storm.
Summit (3-0 overall) hosts
North Eugene on Friday. Sisters (0-2) plays at Cascade on
Thursday.
Also on Tuesday:
BOYS BASKETBALL
Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
REDMOND — The Panthers earned their second
victory of the season in
an Intermountain Hybrid
matchup against the visiting Lava Bears. Connor
Lau led Redmond with 16
points. Tanner Manselle
added 14 points for the Panthers. Bend, which trailed
33-31 at the half, fell further
behind in the third quarter.
Connor Scott led the Lava
Bears with 17 points. Teammate David Larson added 11
points of his own. Redmond
(2-1 overall) will host West
Salem on Friday. Bend (2-1)
plays at North Medford the
same day.
Mountain View . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Madras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
The Cougars scored 70 or
more points for the third consecutive game, rolling past
the visiting White Buffaloes
in the second half to improve
to 3-0 on the season. James
Reid scored a game-high 27
points and Mitch Modin added 20 points for Mountain
View in the nonconference
victory. Madras, which was
playing its season-opener,
led 38-29 at halftime, but
the Cougars outscored the
Buffs 42-17 in the second
half. Edward Zacarias led
Madras with 21 points and
six rebounds. Mountain
View controlled the boards
against the White Buffaloes,
outrebounding Madras 4027. Additionally, the Cougars

responded in cutting their
halftime deficit to 21-19. The
game remained tight into
the fourth quarter; Madras
missed a free throw to tie
the game with 1:30 remaining, then missed two other
baskets in the final minute.
Abby Scott scored 25 points
and grabbed nine rebounds
for the White Buffaloes. Kylie Durre led the Cougars
with 13 points. Madras (0-1
overall) hosts Mazama on
Friday. Mountain View (21) hosts South Medford on
Friday.
Crook County . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Estacada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
PRINEVILLE — Brooke
Buswell scored a game-high
12 points and Jessie Loper
added 11 points, five rebounds and four steals as the
Cowgirls blew out the visiting Rangers. Crook County
(2-0 overall) led 12-9 after the
first quarter before outscoring Estacada 14-1 in the second period to take control of
the game. Makayla Lindburg
contributed 11 points for the
Cowgirls in the nonconference victory. Crook County
is at Sweet Home on Friday
in another nonconference
matchup.
Henley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
La Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
KLAMATH FALLS — The
Hornets made 17 of 29 foul
shots in their nonconference
victory over the Hawk, dropping La Pine to 1-2 on the season. The Hawks, who made
just two of six free throws,
trailed 27-20 at halftime before
Henley put the game away in
the second half, outscoring
La Pine 33-13 after the break.
Ryan Fogel led the Hawks
with 15 points and Katie Mickel added three points, three
assists and five rebounds. La
Pine plays Douglas in the first
round of the Douglas Tournament on Friday.
Culver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Dufur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
CULVER — Cassandra
Fulton scored a game-high 20
points for the Class 2A Bulldogs in a nonconference victory over the Class 1A Rangers. Culver outscored Dufur
16-8 in the second quarter,
taking a 29-20 halftime lead
and extending it by as many
as 14 points over the course
of the games. Blair Anglen
scored 12 points for the Bulldogs, and Sam Donnelly
added nine points and nine
rebounds. Culver (3-0 overall) hosts Sherman County
on Tuesday.
Trinity Lutheran . . . . . . . . . . .34
Gilchrist JV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
The Saints of Bend, who
are playing an independent
schedule this season, won
their third consecutive game
to improve to 3-0 on the season. Abbey Carpenter led
Trinity Lutheran with 12
points, four rebounds and
two blocks. Katie Murphy
added 10 points, nine rebounds and four steals. The
Saints led 22-14 at the half,
and stayed ahead the entire game. Trinity Lutheran
is scheduled to play the
Mountain View freshman
team at Mountain View on
Saturday.

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Senior J.C. Grim gained
significant varsity experience
off the bench last year, and
senior Tanner Torkelson will
be counted on at point guard
once he recovers from a foot
injury suffered during football
season.
The Lava Bears will also
benefit from the addition of
David Larson, a 6-foot-6-inch
junior forward who transferred from Mountain View.
Hayes expects Larson to be a
significant rotation player. The
Cougars, meanwhile, have a
transfer from Bend High in
senior wing Mike Teitgen.
At Summit, Jon Frazier
takes over a program that
went 0-6 against intracity rivals Bend and Mountain View
last season. Frazier, an assistant to Hayes at Bend High
from 2006 to 2010 and last season at Summit, understands
the challenge before him in
building up the Storm.
“Bend and Mountain View
have had a lot of success (recently). We hope to position
ourselves to be competitive,”
he says.
“This is a good group of
kids,” Frazier adds in reference to his Summit players.
“There’s a lot of leadership
and senior buy-in. They care
for each other and play hard
for each other.”
Summit graduated seven
seniors from last year’s team
but returns all-IMC standout
wing Austin Peters and senior
point guard Bradley Laubacher, whose contributions have
been praised by Frazier.
“For the system we run, it’s
imperative to have an extension of the coaching staff on
the floor,” Frazier says. That’s
exactly what (Laubacher) is.”
Four Central Oregon teams
will be playing this season
under the direction of firstyear coaches: Frazier at
Summit, Dan Poet at Central
Christian, Brennan Whitaker
at Culver, and Jon Corbett at
Redmond.
Corbett joins the Panthers
after serving an eight-year
stint as an assistant in the
Mountain View girls basketball program. He won his
coaching debut with Redmond
last Thursday as the Panthers
defeated Class 6A Special District 1 opponent Thurston of
Springfield, 51-4, behind 22
points and 18 rebounds from
senior wing Tanner Manselle, an all-IMC selection last
season.
“I like a high-possessiontype game,” Corbett says.
“We’ll look to take a lot of shots
– the first best shot we can find.
Defensively, Redmond kids
traditionally are real tough.”
At Madras High School,
coach Allen Hair returns four
starters from a White Buffaloes team that won the Class
4A Tri-Valley Conference and
fell a game short of making
the state quarterfinals. Reigning Tri-Valley player of the
year Bobby Ahern and allleague guard Ed Zacarias will
be counted on heavily, and
Madras returns three experienced post players in seniors
Kyle Palmer and Andrew McConnell and junior Jhaylen
Yeahquo.
“All around, I think we’ve
got a little bit of everything,”
Hair says. “We can go big (or)
go small. We’ve got length. We
can throw different matchups
at people.
“We should be vying for a
league title.”

Sisters also came up shy of
the Class 4A state tournament
last season, despite a 16-9
overall record and a secondplace finish in the Sky-Em
League. Outlaws coach Rand
Runco lost two seniors to
graduation but returns three
all-league players from last

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“That horse (Nutrena’s Wise Guy) has been around
for quite a while, and he’s a winner,” said Mote, who
saw Dent finish third in the first round on the same
horse. “Typically, if somebody who rides good has
that horse, they’ll be in the 90s or high 80s. That’s
what you need here; you need a great horse, because
they’re all good.”
Despite missing the last three months of the regular
season because of injuries, Mote currently ranks seventh in the world standings; he ranked ninth coming
into the NFR. With Tuesday’s win, he also moved his
NFR bareback record to 22 round victories.
Mote, who placed third in Monday’s round (also
with a score of 87), was the only Central Oregon contestant to finish in the money on Tuesday.
Also in the bareback competition, Prineville’s
Jason Havens posted a score of 67.5, and Culver’s
Brian Bain did not receive a score. Another Central
Oregon barebacker at the NFR, Steven Peebles, of
Redmond, suffered leg and ankle injuries during
Monday night’s round and will not return to action
in these finals.
In team roping, Powell Butte header Brandon Beers
and his partner, heeler Jim Ross Cooper of New Mexico, for the sixth straight round did not post a time.
And in barrel racing, Terrebonne’s Brenda Mays was
clocked in 14.09 seconds — her second-fastest time at
the NFR but one position out of the money in seventh
place. Mays currently ranks a solid fourth in the average standings.

NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Lakers will
play games on the first three nights of the NBA
season, the first of 42 back-to-back-to-back sets
teams will face during this lockout-shortened
season.
The NBA announced the compacted, 66game schedule on Tuesday night, one that will
require every team to play on three consecutive nights at least once. And it will force every
team to navigate demanding stretches that are
never seen during a full season, such as the
nine games in 12 nights the Atlanta Hawks face
starting with their Dec. 27 opener.
The league’s 66th season begins with five
games on Christmas, including the Lakers
hosting the Chicago Bulls. Los Angeles then
visits Sacramento the next night before returning home to host Utah on Dec. 27.
Teams will play 48 conference games and
18 against the opposing conference, meaning
they play only three nonconference opponents
home and away. The league did preserve its
most storied rivalry, with the Lakers traveling
to Boston for a Feb. 9 matchup before the Celtics
open a stretch of eight road games in 13 nights
in March with games on back-to-back nights at
Staples Center.
Dallas and Miami also will face off twice,
following their Christmas NBA finals rematch
with a March 12 game in Miami. The Heat and
Lakers also meet two times.
The 50-game 1999 season featured 64 sets
of back-to-back-to-backs and was plagued by
sloppy basketball being played on fatigued legs.
The NBA faces a similar predicament now after
failing to reach a new labor deal in time to save
the Nov. 1 start to the season.
Instead, a tentative agreement was reached
on Nov. 26. Lawyers for the owners and players
are still finalizing the rest of the deal, with both
sides expected to vote on it Thursday before
training camps and free agency open on Friday.
Aging teams such as the Celtics, Lakers and
NBA champion Mavericks will have to pace
themselves, while younger teams such as Oklahoma City figure to be better prepared for the
grind.
“You’re not going to have those breaks of three
or four days that you sometimes got in the old 82game schedule, when it was the normal regular
schedule,” former NBA coach and current analyst Mike Fratello said during the schedule announcement on NBA TV. “Now with everything
being compacted, games come that much more
quickly, you’ve got to gear up back up again, you
move onto the next one immediately.”
The Denver Nuggets, hit hard by free agency
with three of their players in China, face another difficult obstacle in the schedule. They
play five games in six nights spanning the New
Year’s weekend, including a home-and-away
set with the Lakers on New Year’s Eve and New
Year’s Day.
The Nuggets do not host Carmelo Anthony,
whom they traded to the Knicks last February.
Deron Williams, sent from Utah to New Jersey
days later, is scheduled to return to Salt Lake
City on Jan. 14.
Other quirks of the schedule include:
• Toronto plays a franchise-record 19 games
in 31 days in January, including five games in
six days from Jan. 9 to Jan. 14.
• Cleveland has its longest homestand ever,
nine games from Feb. 8 to Feb. 28 — including
a visit from LeBron James and the Heat on Feb.
17.
• Philadelphia plays its first five games on the
road, its longest season-opening trip ever.
Miami will appear on ABC or ESPN 16 times,
the most allowable, followed by 15 appearances
apiece for the Lakers and Bulls. The Lakers
and Celtics each appear a league-high 10 times
on TNT.
The regular season is scheduled to conclude
April 26 and the playoffs will open two nights
later. The last possible date of the NBA finals is
June 26.

at L.A. Clippers
at Oklahoma City
L.A. Lakers
at Phoenix
Cleveland
L.A. Clippers
Orlando
at San Antonio
at Houston
at New Orleans
at Atlanta
at Toronto
at Detroit
Sacramento
Memphis
at Golden State
Phoenix
at Utah

Miami
Minnesota
New Orleans
at Minnesota
at Boston
at Washington
at Indiana
at New York
at Chicago
at Oklahoma City
Milwaukee
Memphis
at L.A. Lakers
Goldren State
Oklahoma City
New Orleans
at L.A. Clippers

Sophomore Will Barton had
career highs of 27 points and
14 rebounds to help Memphis
overcome a poor night of outside shooting against Miami.
The Tigers went one for 12
from beyond the arc.

Winter golf
The status of Central Oregon golf courses (excluding private
courses). Those open through the winter could still close
temporarily due to weather:
Aspen Lakes Golf Course (Sisters): Open through winter
Black Butte Ranch: Closed for winter
Crooked River Ranch: Open through winter
Desert Peaks Golf Club (Madras): Open through winter
Eagle Crest Resort (Redmond): Challenge and Ridge courses
open through winter; Resort Course closed for winter
The Greens at Redmond: Open through winter
Juniper Golf Course (Redmond): Open through winter*
Kah-Nee-Ta Resort: Open through winter
Lost Tracks Golf Club (Bend): Open through winter
Meadow Lakes Golf Course (Prineville): Open through winter
Missing Link Family Golf Center (Redmond): Open through
winter
Old Back Nine at Mountain High (Bend): Closed for winter
Prineville Golf Club: Open through winter
Pronghorn Club’s Nicklaus Course (Bend): Open Wednesdays
through Sundays
Quail Run Golf Course (La Pine): Closed for winter
River’s Edge Golf Course (Bend): Open through winter
Sunriver Resort: Closed for winter
Tetherow Golf Club (Bend): Closed for winter
Widgi Creek (Bend): Closed for winter
*On temporary greens

in the four-person scramble.
The weather is a draw,
says Daniel Wendt, head pro
at Brasada.
“Add to it the tournament
has a great beneficiary, Toys
for Tots, and we’re in the season of giving, and the interest has been strong,” Wendt
adds.
Not that the run of mild
weather will completely
make up for business lost
during a lackluster spring
earlier this year.
But unseasonable runs
of playable weather do help
those facilities that have not
closed for the winter bring in
revenue and allow members
to get a bit more value for
their annual fees.
“We’ve put out over 95 players a couple of times in the
last week,” says Ron Buerger,
director of golf at Redmond’s
Eagle Crest Resort. “Yes, it
makes a difference, but it is
also true the members (who
have already paid their dues
for the year) are enjoying the

good weather as well. It’s a
blend.”
The Greens at Redmond,
an executive course that reportedly has been hosting
about 40 or 50 rounds a day
during the recent fair weather, has seen a similar mix of
daily fee golfers and members playing.
Those golfers who have yet
to give up on the golf season
have been rewarded during
the last two weeks.
Yet, it won’t last forever.
Or, as The Greens head pro
Craig Melott puts it, “The degree of crappiness in weather
will drop these (player) numbers accordingly.”
But for now, golfers get a
few more swings in the sun.
Says Bruce Wattenburger,
head pro at Juniper Golf
Course in Redmond: “I’m sure
that Mt. Bachelor (ski area) is
hoping for some snow, and us
golfers are liking it the way it
is.”
— Reporter: 541-617-7868, zhall@
bendbulletin.com

GOLF SCOREBOARD
The Bulletin welcomes contributions to
its weekly local golf results listings and
events calendar. Clearly legible items
should be faxed to the sports department,
541-385-0831, e-mailed to sports@bendbulletin.com, or mailed to P.O. Box 6020;
Bend, OR 97708.

Marquette beats Washington
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jae Crowder
hit a three-pointer from the
corner with 6.3 seconds to
play and No. 11 Marquette
beat Washington 79-77 in the
Jimmy V Classic at Madison
Square Garden on Tuesday
night.
Darius Johnson-Odom had
23 points to lead the Golden
Eagles (8-0) in an up-anddown game that included 15
lead changes and four ties over
the final 12 minutes.
Crowder, who finished with
18 points, hit his only threepointer of the game in four
attempts nine seconds after
Terrence Ross had given the
Huskies (4-3) a 77-76 lead with
a nice move in the lane when
he was closely guarded by two
Marquette players.
Washington had a chance at
one more lead change but Abdul Gaddy’s long jumper at the
buzzer was well off the mark.
Ross had 19 points to lead
the Huskies, who have lost
three of four and will remain
in New York to face No. 7 Duke
on Saturday, also in Madison
Square Garden.
Also on Tuesday:
No. 3 Syracuse . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

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“It’s definitely better than
it could be,” says Ryan Whitcomb, general manager at
Bend’s Lost Tracks Golf Club.
“It’s nothing crazy. We’re
talking about 20, 30, 40 golfers a day.”
A busy summer day might
bring more than 200 golfers
to the course, but a couple
dozen golfers is not insignificant to the bottom lines of
golf courses.
Even golfers who prefer
their golf in tournament
form have options. The Club
at Brasada Ranch, Meadow
Lakes Golf Course in Prineville, and the Central Oregon
Winter Series all have public
tournaments scheduled for
this weekend.
At Meadow Lakes, tournament play this late in the year
is a fixture on the calendar.
The municipal golf course attempts to host its Christmas
Goose golf tournament every
December.
But the holiday tourney
has lost out to Mother Nature
in recent winters, says Zach
Lampert, assistant pro at
Meadow Lakes.
“The Goose has been
cooked the past two years,
canceled due to snow on the
course,” says Lampert, adding that he expects a large
field for this year’s tournament. “The last time we were
able to play, 2008, we had
to change the event to nine
holes because of fresh snow
that morning, and we had to
wait for it to melt off.
“We are definitely off to
a great start for December,”
Lampert adds. “In five days,
we already have half as many
golfers as we had in all of December 2010. November was
also good for us, as rounds
were up 12 percent over November 2010.”
Like Meadow Lakes,
Brasada expects a relatively
high turnout of more than
50 golfers Saturday for its
Toys for Tots fundraising golf
tournament, which asks participants to pay $20 and bring
two unwrapped toys to play

Calendar
The Bulletin welcomes contributions to
its weekly local golf events calendar. Items
should be mailed to P.O. Box 6020, Bend,
OR 97708; faxed to the sports department
at 541-385-0831; or e-mailed to sports@
bendbulletin.com.
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TOURNAMENTS
Dec. 9 — Central Oregon Winter Series betterball tournament at Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond.
Two-person teams with no more than one professional allowed per team. Cost is $30 for professionals, $50 for amateurs. Cost includes gross and net
skins competitions. Cart costs extra. All players must
sign up by noon on the Thursday before the event. To
register or for more information, call Pat Huffer, head
pro at Crooked River Ranch, at 541-923-6343 or email him at crrpat@crookedriverranch.com.
Dec. 10 — Toys for Tots golf tournament at the
Club at Brasada Ranch. Four-person scramble begins
with an 11 a.m. shotgun start. Cost is $20 plus two
new unwrapped toys per person. Deadline to register
is Friday at 4 p.m. For more information or to register,
call Brasada Ranch at 541-526-6380 or email event
coordinator Dan Wendt at danielw@brasada.com.
Dec. 10 — Christmas Goose Golf Tournament
at Meadow Lakes Golf Course in Prineville. Alternate shot tournament is for two person-teams and
tees off with an 10 a.m. shotgun start. To register
or for more information, call the Meadow Lakes golf
shop at 541-447-7113.
Jan. 13 — Central Oregon Winter Series shamble at Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino near
Warm Springs. Two-person teams with no more
than one professional allowed per team. Cost is $30
for professionals, $50 for amateurs. Cost includes
gross and net skins competitions. Cart costs extra.
All players must sign up by noon on the Thursday
before the event. To register or for more information,
call Pat Huffer, head pro at Crooked River Ranch,
at 541-923-6343 or e-mail him at crrpat@crookedriverranch.com.
Feb. 3 — Central Oregon Winter Series triple
six tournament at Meadow Lakes Golf Course in
Prineville. Two-person teams with no more than one
professional allowed per team. Cost is $30 for professionals, $50 for amateurs. Cost includes gross and net
skins compeitions. Cart costs extra. All players must
sign up by noon on the Thursday before the event. To
register or for more information, call Pat Huffer, head
pro at Crooked River Ranch, at 541-923-6343 or email him at crrpat@crookedriverranch.com.
Feb. 5 — Super Bowl Scramble at Meadow
Lakes Golf Course in Prineville is a four-person
scramble. Event tees off with a 10 a.m. shotgun
start. For more information or to register, call the
Meadow Lakes pro shop at 541-447-7113.
Feb. 24 — Central Oregon Winter Series better
ball at Crooked River Ranch. Two-person teams with
no more than one professional allowed per team.
Cost is $30 for professionals, $50 for amateurs.
Cost includes gross and net skins compeitions. Cart
costs extra. All players must sign up by noon on the
Thursday before the event. To register or for more information, call Pat Huffer, head pro at Crooked River
Ranch, at 541-923-6343 or e-mail him at crrpat@
crookedriverranch.com.

The Bulletin continues a
weekly Tee To Green feature
in which we check in via
email with golf professionals
at Central Oregon courses
for an offseason update. This
week we contacted Alan
Hoover, general manager at
Meadow Lakes Golf Course
in Prineville.
Hoover took over at Meadow Lakes in June for Lee
Roberts, who retired this
past spring after spending
nine years at Prineville’s
municipal golf course. The
50-year-old Hoover comes to
Central Oregon from Colorado, where he spent a year
as the head pro at Harvard
Gulch Golf Course, a municipal facility in Denver. And it
won’t take long for Hoover
— a Portland native who
grew up in Seattle — to make
his mark at Meadow Lakes,
which has some significant
changes in store for 2012.
This is what he had to say
about the current business of
golf and about his new home
course:

Were any changes of
note made to the facility during the last year?
Several bunkers were
eliminated and the
majority of the trees have
been trimmed up, improving shot values throughout
the course. Windmills were
added to aerify the ponds
(Meadow Lakes doubles as
a wastewater treatment facility), which help to eliminate
the odor that they sometimes
produced. The junior golf program was overhauled to be
more year-round and to get
kids out on the course more

during instruction. We also
started our Baby Birdies program for kids ages 2 through
6. We also created the Family
Association, where families
could play golf during the
early evening for $10 per person and play in family golf
tournaments.

Q:

Are any changes and/
or improvements to
the facility scheduled for
2012?
The entire facility will
be getting a face-lift
inside and out including the
golf shop, dining room, bar,
and banquet room. Changes
will be made to the restaurant menu. On the course,
three new forward tees and a

A:

European Tour

championship tee are scheduled for construction. The
driving range will be reconfigured with more targets
and better sight lines. We
also look forward to hosting
more special events for the
community.

Q:

Has the Central Oregon golf industry
started to bounce back from
the economic struggles that
have gripped the region since
2007?
I’ve only been here since
June so I don’t know if
I’m a qualified spokesperson,
but I’d be hard-pressed to say
the industry has bounced
back anywhere.

A:

Q:
A:

What more can be done
to bring new golfers to
the course?
Every golf industry
trade magazine has
different success stories and
suggestions that cover a wide
range of options to consider.
Here in Prineville we have
one of the best golf values
in Central Oregon, but we
all still need the economy to
make an upturn.
— Reporter: 541-617-7868, zhall@
bendbulletin.com

DUBAI WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Jumeirah Golf Estates,
Earth Course (7,675 yards, par 72).
Purse: $7.5 million. Winner’s
share: $1.25 million.
Television: Golf Channel
(Thursday, midnight-4 a.m., 7
a.m.-noon, 3:30-8:30 p.m.; Friday,
midnight-5 a.m., 7 a.m.-noon,
3:30-5:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday,
noon-5 a.m., 7 a.m.-noon, 3:306:30 p.m.).
Last year: Sweden’s Robert
Karlsson won the season-ending
event, beating Ian Poulter with a
birdie on the second extra hole
after Poulter’s bizarre marking
blunder. Poulter was given a onestroke penalty for dropping his
ball on his marker on the green,
causing the marker to flip over and
move from its original position.
Last week: Rory McIlroy rallied to
win the Hong Kong Open.
Notes: Top-ranked Luke Donald is
trying to become the first player to
sweep the PGA Tour and European
money titles. Donald has earned
$5,156,965 — $1,056,144 more
than second-place McIlroy. If
McIlroy wins the tournament,
Donald needs only to tie for ninth
with one player to take the money
title. The money champion will earn
$1.5 million from the $7.5 million
bonus pool.

Woods’ quiet win could produce
a big echo for 2012 tour season
“I’m sure he thinks he
can get back there,” he
added a moment later. “I
wouldn’t doubt if he did.”

JIM
LITKE

Jim Litke is a national sports
columnist for The Associated
Press. Write to him at jlitke@
ap.org. Follow him at http://
Twitter.com/JimLitke.

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o one knows what this
one means, least of all
Tiger Woods.
A win at the Chevron World
Challenge doesn’t provide
much in the way of bragging
rights. It’s not an official PGA
Tour event, the field is limited
to 18 players and it wraps up
in the middle of an NFL Sunday, when most golf fans are
paying closer attention to first
downs than fairways hit. But
after more than two years and
26 tournaments without a win
of any kind, Woods isn’t about
to hand this one back.
“It feels great,” he said afterward. “It’s kind of hard for me
to elaborate beyond that.”
Here’s why: Woods won’t
play tournament golf again
until the end of January, when
any momentum from the
birdie-birdie finish he dropped
on Zach Johnson to seal the
deal will be little more than
a fading memory. Ditto for
the sometimes-sparkling golf
Woods has played for nearly
a month now, including nine
of 11 rounds in the 60s and a
handful of shots that no other
golfer in the world could have
pulled off.
But if there’s a takeaway
from any of that, it’s this: For the
first time in a long time, there
was a feeling of inevitability
about Woods’ final putt on the
18th green at Sherwood Country Club. It was only 6 feet, but
it was also straight downhill,
the way our expectations for
Woods have been trending for
some time now. Yet the second
after the ball disappeared into
the cup, an NBC camera cut
to Johnson flashing his caddie
a grin that suggested, “I can’t
do anything about that” before
walking across the green to
shake hands.
“In this game, I’m never surprised with the way the guys
are able to execute and hit
shots,” said Johnson, a former
Masters champion. “I think he
would be the epitome of that
example. ... I mean, he’s the
most experienced and the best
player I’ve ever played with. In
every situation, he knows how
to execute and win.”
Or did — until that fateful
crash-filled, post-Thanksgiving ride down the driveway of
his Florida mansion two years
ago cost Woods his marriage,
his reputation, a handful of
big-buck sponsors and his
uncanny ability to produce
magical shots time and again
in the most pressure-packed
situations. That 6-footer on
Sunday won’t be cherished,

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the distractions of his divorce
and a string of injuries left
Woods little time to work on
his game. He left swing coach
Hank Haney for Sean Foley,
cut caddie Steve Williams and
hired Joe LaCava, but the biggest change over the winless
streak was how little Woods
actually played.
Beginning with the Fry’s
Open last month, then on
through some exhibitions, the
Australian Open, Presidents
Cup and now the Chevron,
Woods has hit more golf balls
than at any time in the past
year. In the wind at Royal
Melbourne, he hit a half-dozen shots that made you gasp
— among them a 3-wood that
was head-high and traveled
280 yards before coming to a
stop 12 feet from the pin — and
if not for a bogey-bogey-bogey
start to the third round, Woods
might have won that tournament, too.
The old Tiger might have
said exactly that, but the one
who’s out there now wouldn’t
dare. The closest thing to an
old “I told you so” that Woods
mustered was a tweet asking,
“who’s up for some ll cool j?”
that linked to a video of the
rapper’s 1991 hit “Mama Said
Knock You Out.” The song’s
well-known first line warns,
“Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve
been here for years.”
Just not in the winner’s
circle for the last two. All of
a sudden, though, the guys
Woods will be facing again
come the start of next season
won’t be surprised to find him
there again.
“I don’t know if he’ll ever
get to where he was before,
because he was so dominant.
Sure, he’ll have good stretches
again and play some tremendous stretches again,” Stricker
said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever
see that again from anybody.

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Tiger Woods waves his cap after winning the Chevron World
Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club Sunday
in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

let alone remembered, the way
any of the dozens that locked
up major championships will
be, and a few of his fellow golfers went so far as to make that
same point on Twitter. Not that
Woods needed humbling, not
after 18 months as the butt of
countless late-night TV jokes
and two-plus years without a
win.
“They all feel good, you
know. They’re not easy,” he
said. “People don’t realize how
hard it is to win golf tournaments. I’ve gone on streaks
where I’ve won golf tournaments in a row, but still, each
one, I don’t think I’ve taken it
for granted.
“And I know,” Woods added,
“because of how hard it is.”
In case he needed reminding, No. 2 Rory McIlroy won
the Hong Kong Open and No.
3 Lee Westwood won the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa the same day. But the funny thing is that the Chevron,
which Woods hosts to benefit
his foundation, actually had
more players ranked in the top
25 than either: 11 total, compared to just three in Hong
King and six in South Africa.
And a few of those golfers saw
enough to suggest that after
so many false starts, Woods
may actually be — as he never
tires of saying — putting it all
together.
“I figured someday he’d let
all this stuff get past and rededicate himself,” said Steve
Stricker. “When somebody
goes in the tank, you need
to have that work ethic to get
yourself off the bottom. We
all know he works extremely
hard when he wants to. He’s
finally getting his mind clear
and wants to work at it a lot.”
Though no one discussed it
and few people were in a position to actually know, there
was plenty to suggest that

IN BRIEF
Christmas trees
available online
If the busy holiday
season isn’t leaving
you time to get into the
forest or out to the tree
lots popping up around
Central Oregon, there
is now a direct-to-yourdoor way to get a real
Christmas tree.
Costco, Target and
Sears are all selling
freshly cut trees on their
websites, offering doorstep delivery. The prices
are higher than you’ll
find at tree lots around
town. But retailers’ sites
promise top quality.
Costco.com says
through Dec. 18,
consumers can buy a
6½- to 7-foot Fraser
fir starting at $119.99.
Three sizes of trees
are available. Target.
com Fraser firs start
at $74.99 for a 4½- to
5-foot tree and come
in five sizes, according
to the website. A 7½to 8-foot Fraser fir is
available from Sears for
$159.99, according to
Sears.com.
All three retailers say
their trees come with a
biodegradable bag for
disposal.
Contact: www.costco
.com; www.target.com;
www.sears.com.

Tony Cenicola
New York Times News Service

Among the year’s many
samples, several beauty
products rise above the
rest for gift ideas.

TUX

New York Times News Service

As the Beauty Spots
columnist, I receive an overwhelming number of samples. Although many items
end up in shopping bags under my desk or donated to
charity, I make an earnest
attempt to try as many eye
creams, lip glosses and nail
polishes as possible. Life is
tough, I know.
As I dabbled, smeared,
buffed and scribbled this
year, I grew quite fond of
(and in some cases, dependent on) a number of products, listed below. Each one
would make an excellent
stocking stuffer.

By Greg Morago
Houston Chronicle

This year for the
holidays, more merchants are offering
free shipping for items
purchased online with
no minimum for dollars
spent.
For techies, Best Buy
will ship any product for
free until Dec. 27. The
offer requires no minimum order value.
Apple is also providing free shipping for online purchases, through
Dec. 22. The company
normally requires a
minimum $50 purchase.
Other retailers tempting online shoppers with
free shipping include
L.L. Bean, Nordstrom
and Nine West.
Numerous retailers continue to offer
free shipping with a
minimum dollar amount
purchased.
Contact: www.free
shipping.org

ome menswear histories trace the introduction of the tuxedo to a natty gent who, frustrated by tails that interfered with his dancing, wore a tailless dress coat to New York’s
Tuxedo Park resort’s Autumn Ball in 1886.
This is the 125th anniversary of the tux
— the most dashing apparel by far in a man’s
wardrobe.
But there’s the rub: Most guys rent them.
Isn’t it about time you owned your own tux?
It’s an investment that will keep giving, says
men’s fashion arbiter Tom Julian, author
of “Nordstrom Guide to Men’s Style” and
“Nordstrom Guide to Men’s Everyday
Dressing.” A good, single-breasted tux
“is the best investment to make,” said
Julian, president of the brand-consulting firm Tom Julian Group.

Julian’s tips for tuxes
• When choosing a tux, look
for trousers (never cuffed)
that are slimmer and sport
a higher waist than normal suit pants, which offers a proportion better
suited for a tux jacket,
formal shirt and
cummerbund.
• Stay away from
synthetic materials
— go with Super
100 wools.
See Tux / E3

Deadlines
approach for
shipping gifts

— Heidi Hagemeier,
The Bulletin

By Hilary Howard

TIPS

Shipping free for
online purchases

Mark a few dates on
your calendar if you’re
shipping gifts to friends
and family afar.
By today, the U.S.
Postal Service advises
customers to get international shipping
under way for delivery
by Christmas, according
to the Postal Service
website. Of course, the
Postal Service can’t
control what happens to
the parcel once it leaves
the country.
For guaranteed domestic delivery by the
25th for Parcel Post, the
Postal Service offers a
Dec. 15 deadline. Firstclass mail should be off
by Dec. 20, Priority Mail
by Dec. 21 and Express
Mail by Dec. 22.
Priority and Express
mail will cost customers more than Parcel
Post.
The Postal Service’s
website lists more
specific dates for international packages
depending on where
they are traveling — the
date recommended
for Europe is Friday
while Africa’s date was
last week — and for
deadlines for shipping
parcels to military locations.
Contact: www.usps
.com/holiday

For gifts,
a crop
of the
creams

Bazaars
prep you
for the
holiday

Thinkstock

The following is a list of holiday bazaars for the upcoming
week. A new list of upcoming
bazaars will publish every
Wednesday. To submit a bazaar
that has not already appeared,
send your information to
communitylife@bendbulletin.
com or mail it to The Bulletin,
Holiday Bazaars, P.O. Box
6020, Bend, OR 97708. The
deadline is a week before each
Wednesday’s publication. Contact: 541-383-0351.
Admission to bazaars is free
unless otherwise noted.

There are even smartphone apps
to create and mail personalized
holiday cards.

DAYTON, Ohio — Some
holiday traditions will grandly
withstand the dismal economy
this year and remain firmly on
shoppers’ minds and to-do lists.
The holiday greeting card is
just as important in 2011 as it
has been in more financially
robust times, according to designers and retailers.
After all, as Joe Bohardt, of
Oakwood, Ohio, points out, a
beautiful holiday card is a gift
in itself.
“A handwritten note or a
holiday greeting card is a gift
because you have taken the

time out of your busy day to
send a nice message,” he said.
“I think people definitely
still want to send holiday
cards,” added Jenna Yee, coowner of Pink Ink Design
Group in Glendale, Ohio.
Christmas is the largest cardsending holiday in the U.S.,
with approximately 1.5 billion
cards sent annually, according
to Hallmark Cards Inc.
But card senders are keeping
costs down this year by keeping things elegantly simple.
“We have seen a shift from
highly embellished cards —
with layers of crystal, ribbon
and vellum — to more simple

designs on good paper,” Yee
says.
Another way shoppers are
staying within budget this
year is by sending postcards,
which are not only cheaper to
produce, but also to mail.
“I love the look of an envelope, but I hate the waste of it.
Postcards are a totally green
approach.”

Photos fashionable
More and more people are
opting for digital photo cards,
which carry a wonderful
personal touch, according to
Bohardt.
See Cards / E6

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When we think of endangered species we think of the
red wolf, the black rhinoceros
or even the short-haired chinchilla â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if we think of them at
all. But people rarely consider
the big cats.
Nat Geo Wild will chronicle
some of these lithe predators
when it plays its own game
of Hello, Kitty with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Cat
Week,â&#x20AC;? beginning Sunday.
One of the featured films
will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Lionsâ&#x20AC;? by
Dereck and Beverly Joubert,
wildlife photographers and researchers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been stalking the stalkers for 30 years.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the alarming things
for us, which was the sort of
genesis of this film and this
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Big Cat Week,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; actually, is
that we discovered that in our
lifetimes, lion numbers have
dropped from 450,000 down
to 20,000, and the leopard
numbers are from 700,000
down to 50,000,â&#x20AC;? said Dereck
Joubert.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe, but more
tigers are living in captivity today than in the wild.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And by that sort of extension of curve, you will imagine these big cats to be extinct
within the next 10 or 15 years,â&#x20AC;?
he said.
The Jouberts were born
in South Africa, but say they
moved to Botswana because
they â&#x20AC;&#x153;needed to go out into the
real Africa. ... I thought that
the big cats would lead us into
a greater understanding of the
rest of Africa, and then we
kind of got stuck there,â&#x20AC;? said
Dereck.
Why the big cats? Why not
apes or crocodiles or prairie
dogs? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really are the

Courtesy National Geographic Channel

Three lions are part of the
documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last
Lions,â&#x20AC;? airing on Nat Geo Wild
on Dec. 16 as part of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Cat
Week.â&#x20AC;?

iconic species in Africa,â&#x20AC;? said
Beverly Joubert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without
saving the apex predator,
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to lose vast tracts
of land. If the apex predator
is taken out of the system, the
whole system will collapse.
But also, man will move
into the system, and man
will eventually take every
single animal out of there as
bush meat. So we ultimately
need to keep the apex predators alive so that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got
corridors for elephants, for
antelope, and the tiny little
dung beetles. It is vitally
important.â&#x20AC;?
Part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Cats Weekâ&#x20AC;?
is the National Geographicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Big Cats Initiative, a longterm commitment to staunch
the decline of these denizens
of the wild. While cheetahs have disappeared from
more than 75 percent of their
range, the cheetah story offers a glimmer of hope, says
Dereck Joubert.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheetahs today came
out of a genetic bottleneck

of about 200 individuals
and then grew back up to
about 45,000 to 50,000. Today theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re down around
12,000. But the fact that
you can actually recover a
species is what gives us so
much hope, and we think
that we can do exactly
the same with lions and
leopards.â&#x20AC;?
The Jouberts spend days
on end watching wildlife
do its thing. They see the
animals prosper and perish. Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to
watch and not intervene,
says Beverly.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
heart-wrenching. On a daily basis itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
heart-wrenching. So I
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a
certain personality. We
have a concern of looking
at the bigger picture and
wanting to protect wildlife in general. And so it is
wrong of us to believe that
we are going to play God
with nature. This has been
happening for millions of
years. What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying
to do is show how unique
and how similar, actually,
wildlife is to us by doing
that (observing) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and not
interfering â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though
it is heart-wrenching. Often Dereck and I will say
that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more emotionally drained than physically drained even though
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working 16 to 18
hours a day.â&#x20AC;?
The two-hour premiere
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Lionsâ&#x20AC;? airs
Dec. 16.

Husband is aging too well
for worrying wife to handle
Dear Abby: When I married my husband, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mason,â&#x20AC;? 30
years ago, I was the only girl
he could get. He was a great
catch by my standards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and
still is. But back then nobody
else wanted him but me, which
was fine with me. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like
competition.
We have had a great life together up until the last 10 years
or so. Mason is aging gracefully, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something
about him now that every
woman is suddenly interested
in. They all treat him like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a new toy. They fawn over him
and I become invisible.
We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get out much, and
I used to think I wanted to
go out more â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but now I just
want to stay home and hide
my husband inside. The real
problem is, Mason loves the
attention. It could be what he
always wanted. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know
how to handle this without
getting my feelings hurt, pouting and being incredibly jealous. He gives me no reason to
think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be unfaithful, but I
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but worry. Help!
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wife of a Late Bloomer
Dear Wife: Congratulations.
You are now a member of a
â&#x20AC;&#x153;clubâ&#x20AC;? comprised of spouses
living in the shadows of actors,
politicians, moguls, etc. However, your self-esteem issues
could create real problems for
you and your husband if you
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn to deal with them.
You werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the â&#x20AC;&#x153;only woman Mason could getâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
the woman Mason CHOSE to
spend his life with. The sooner
you accept that, the better off
both of you will be. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
do it on your own, counseling
could help because hiding is
not the answer.
Dear Abby; My son and
daughter-in-law live like pigs.
Neither one of them was raised
that way. They live in a beautiful home that literally smells
like a litter box. I would look
the other way or not visit, but
now they have four children.
Not only are my grandchildren unkempt and dirty
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dirty clothes, smelly shoes,
unwashed hair â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but my son

This year you declare that you need
more efficiency in order to live your
life to the fullest. Think before you
get involved in anything new or
different. The quality of your life
becomes even more important.
You mix activity and caring in a
relationship. Your sweetie might
have to adjust to your new concerns.
If you are single, you will look for
someone who adds to your life, as
opposed to trying to â&#x20AC;&#x153;saveâ&#x20AC;? another
person. You have a lot to smile
about. TAURUS helps you in any
way possible.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HHHH Good suggestions and
bright ideas seem to happen
naturally, especially when
communicating with a loved one
or dear friends. The good news
remains â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you have the energy to
act on the situation as well. Tonight:
Treat yourself well.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHHHH You feel good; act
accordingly. Do you do different
activities when you are on top of
the world? Charge! If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling
less than great, see what is going
on. Consider eliminating certain
factors in your life that put you in a
downward spiral. Tonight: All smiles.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH Listen to a friend you really
care about. His or her advice right now
might be more grounded than in the
past. You feel tired and drawn, as you
have gone out of your way for others.
Now go out of your way for yourself.
Tonight: Get some extra zzzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHHH You might want to rethink
a decision that is taking you in a new
direction. Actions taken right now
might not work out instantly, but
point to the correct direction. You
have made an enormous effort and
need to see the responses. Tonight:
Where people are.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
HHHH Others naturally gravitate
toward you, but is this what you
want? Sometimes you might be
happier assuming a low profile.
Feeling a little suffocated is one of
the outcomes of so much publicity.
You can handle it. Tonight: A partner
needs attention, too.

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Dear Abby: My father-inlaw drops by our house nearly
every weekend. He arrives so
early that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re usually still in
bed. He also rides a motorcycle
that sounds like a jet engine
and disturbs our neighbors.
I have asked my husband
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about these early morning visits. He refuses to say anything.
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HHHH Take an overview. Be willing
to dig into an issue more deeply, or
detach more to understand what is
happening, or check to see that you
have a full perspective. Tonight: Let
your mind wander.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
HHHHH Relate on a one-onone level with others. That type of
attention always makes someone feel
important. Your caring comes back in
multiples like you never expected. You
might need to reveal frustration about
a key issue. Tonight: Find time for a
special friend.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
HHH You might be taken aback
by everything that happens around
you. The issue might be that you
have some strong opinions and
want to proceed in a key direction.
You also need to let others follow
through on what they feel is the right
way. Accept what is happening.
Tonight: Sort through ideas and
invitations.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
HHH Maintain an even pace, and
clear out your errands. You have
the ability to accomplish a lot. You
mobilize your feelings and get the
job done. There is an awkwardness
between you and someone you
really care about. Tonight: Squeeze
in some exercise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
HHH You could be overwhelmed by
all the ideas that are coming forward.
News from a distance sets you in a
new direction. Make no judgments.
You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have all the news and
information. Trust that more is
coming in. Tonight: Let the fun begin.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
HHH Stay centered on your
personal patterns. Realize what is
going on behind the scenes with
what you want to bring forward. You
also can choose to ignore what is
happening and give yourself some
space. Tonight: Where the action is.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
HHHH Clear your desk and answer
calls before making a key decision.
Recognize what you are feeling and
what is going on behind the scenes.
You might decide to say little and
observe more. Make an important
call; donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep putting it off.
Tonight: Visit with a friend as soon
as you can.
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Continued from E1
â&#x20AC;˘ Tux details can include stripes and
braids on trousers and satin on lapels.
Satin, with its subtle sheen, is a traditional choice for an accent fabric. Grosgrain
pants stripes are quite natty.
â&#x20AC;˘ Wing-collar shirts are best with a
bow tie; lie-down collars are best with a
solid silk necktie.
â&#x20AC;˘ Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget: Cummerbund pleats face
up; cuff links for French-cuffed sleeves;
studs for exposed shirt placket.
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You might as well spring for good shoes,
too. And throw in evening hosiery.

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To tie a bow tie, start with end in left
hand extending an inch and a half below
that in right hand.
Cross longer end over shorter and pass
up through loop.
Form front loop of bow by doubling up
shorter end (hanging) and placing across
collar points.
Hold this front loop with thumb and
forefinger of left hand. Drop long end
down over front.
Place right forefinger, point up, on
bottom half of hanging part. Pass up behind front loop and poke resulting loop
through knot behind front loop. Even
ends and tighten.

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Cards

Beauty

Continued from E1
There are several ways to
create digital photos cards.
First of all, you can visit
stationery shops and choose
templates from albums, or, “if
those don’t tickle your fancy,”
adds Bohardt, you can enlist
the help of a graphic designer.
Online retailers are giving
good cause to celebrate with
coupons and special offers.
Websites worth checking out if
you want to send a photo card
include snapfish.com, www
.simplytoimpress.com, vista
print.com and shutterfly.com.

Continued from E1
Yes to Tomatoes Clear Skin
Pore Scrub
Most facial exfoliants are
either too abrasive or too
subtle. This product has a
salty, soupy texture that is
oddly satisfying (try to refrain from tasting). Ingredients include the antioxidant
lycopene (naturally present
in tomatoes), salicylic acid,
ground bamboo and mango seeds ($9.99, http://yesto
carrots.com).
Cle de Peau Beaute Intensive Eye Contour Cream
Encased in a sparkling
jar with a platinum eyemassaging wand attached,
this pale green cream
features a proprietary “illuminating complex” that
contains a retinol derivative. Applying the cream
with the wand in tiny circles feels refreshing and
nurturing (for $250, it had
better). Available at select
department stores, including Bergdorf Goodman.

Shaping things up
A trend this year is to send
holiday cards that do double-duty as Christmas tree
ornaments.
These flat round cards feature a design or photo on one
side, she adds, and a greeting
on the other — complete with
a pretty ribbon for hanging.
At the same time, smaller
cards are becoming more important and their tinier shapes mean
a more affordable approach to
celebrating the season.

For the procrastinator
Time is money and money is
time. We all can understandably fall behind sometimes,
but fortunately there are a
couple of ways to send good
thoughts last-minute during
the yuletide season.
Many retailers, including Kroger stores, are stocking Hallmark’s Postage-Paid
Greetings — a line of cards
that already includes postage. Add your personal holiday message, then just sign,
seal and send. (Postage-paid
greetings range from $2.69 to
$3.99.)
Starting at $2.99 per greeting card, the new Cards app
from Apple lets users create
and mail beautifully crafted
cards personalized with text
and photos from their iPhone
or iPod touch. Take a quick
snapshot and with a few taps
and swipes, an elegant letterpress card is on its way to any
address in the world.
Design and customize your
card with a personal message
and photo. Then select an address from your contacts and
place your order.
How cool is that?

Better beauty products

A Bliss Mistle Toes
Gift Set for $48, available
at www.blissworld.com.
Among the year’s many

BeadforLife shea butter soap for
$4 at http://beadforlife.org.
Tony Cenicola
New York Times News Services

Bliss Mistle Toes Gift Set
This is around the time of
year when feet, especially
sporty feet, dry out. The soothing, gel-lined socks in this kit
hydrate, while the Foot Patrol
exfoliates with alpha hydroxy
and salicylic acids ($48, www
.blissworld.com).

Fragrance

Bath

Dolce & Gabbana Rose the One
The scent of rose has always
had a calming effect on me.
Fresh citrus top notes include
pink grapefruit and mandarin, so the scent is not too cloyingly floral (starting at $62,
www.saks.com).
Valentina
An ultra-feminine perfume
introduced this fall by the
house of Valentino. Notes include Calabrian bergamot,
white Alba truffle, jasmine
and Amalfi orange blossom.
The couture bottle, the “freespirited heiress” marketing
campaign and the fragrance
itself make one want to don
a slip dress and run barefoot
through the streets of Rome at
night. The scent, which starts
at $80, will be sold at Valentino
boutiques in the United States
starting this month.

Lush Holiday and Seasonal
Bath Bombs
These are such a pleasure,
from the optional packaging reminiscent of an oldfashioned popcorn bag to
the sweet-smelling fizz that
erupts when the bombs are
plopped into the water. Bath
bombs are also kid-friendly;
some are vegan ($3.95 to
$6.95). New this season are
Bubbleroons ($5.95), which
don’t fizz but produce an impressive bubble bath (www
.lushusa.com).
BeadforLife Shea
Butter Soap
The nonprofit BeadforLife
(http://beadforlife.org), known
for its beads made of recycled
paper, is now helping some
760 Ugandan women produce
shea butter products. Buying a
$4 bar of their extraordinarily
rich soap is a win-win.

Face
This earth-friendly company
recently collaborated with the
Pollinator Partnership, a nonprofit organization that fosters
the health of pollinating animals through research, conservation and education ($7,
burtsbees.com).

Hair
Julien Farel Restore
This year, Farel, a celebrity
stylist, introduced a new haircare line made in Italy that
comes in three formulas: Hydrate; Vitamin (for color-treated hair); and Zero-Frizz (curly
hair). The shampoo ($33) and
conditioner ($23) leave no residue and smell like Creamsicles
(www.julienfarel.com).

Eyes
Clinique Lid Smoothie
Antioxidant 8-Hour Eye Colour
These refreshing cream eye
shadows include extracts of
vitamin E and vegetables like
broccoli and spinach, as well
as caffeine to give tired eyes
a boost. Most of the 12 colors
have some shimmer ($19.50,

www.clinique.com).
MAC Snow Globe Eye Shadows
These palettes offer three
six-color combinations: cool
(blues and purples), warm
(earth tones) and sultry (reds
and pinks), but the best part
is the mood-enhancing snowglobe tops ($38, www.maccos
metics.com).

Hands
Nails Inc. Porchester Square
Polish, Hand Cream and
Vitamin E Pen
All colors in this trendy British line are named after English destinations, like Gatwick
(matte red) and Piccadilly
Circus (dark pink cerise). My
favorite is Porchester Square
(muted mushroom, $19.50).
Enriched with caviar extract,
the hand cream ($18) is nongreasy, and the pen ($10) is the
easiest way I’ve found to condition cuticles.
NARS Space Odyssey
Nail Polish
Glittery polishes often suffer from lack of opacity. Not
this one. After two coats, I’m

Miracle Skin Transformer
Treat & Conceal
This light and airy concealer
contains color minerals, mica
and natural silicones, as well
as vitamins K and F, thought
to have antiaging properties
($36, www.miracleskintrans
former.com).
Intellishade SPF 45 Matte
I thought I lost my tube at
the airport a few months ago
and panicked. It is the product
I am most excited about from
2011, as it combines a moisturizer, high SPF and natural-looking tint that adjusts
to different skin tones. Glides
on and doesn’t leave the face
feeling dirty ($48, http://intelli
shadespf45.com).
Mally Poreless Evercolor
Face Defender
The Defender has a cult
following and has been selling like hotcakes on QVC for
months now. It acts like a finishing powder, but is in actuality a hard gel-like substance
that makes pores disappear
and softens your whole look
($40, http://mallybeauty.com).

Services
Glam a Go-Go Gift Certificate
Maria Bonita, a Brazilian
salon and spa in NoLIta, offers a deep hair-conditioning treatment (using the
salon’s protein-rich formula,
Envix), manicure, blowout
and cocktail service all in
an hour ($98, www.maria
bonitany.com).
Henri Bendel New York Gift
Certificate
Most any excuse to visit
this Fifth Avenue landmark
is understandable, but new to
the store is Blink, a threading
salon that also offers lash tinting. As a pale-lashed person
who dislikes mascara, I’m a
big fan of tinting, which costs
$40 and lasts up to six weeks
(www.henribend el.com).

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Plaintiff,
521 NW Harriman St.
v.
Bend, OR 97701
R&G RENTALS, LLC, an Oregon limited liability company;
AMERICAN
SPRINKLERS,
INC.,
an Oregon corporation; UNITED
or claims may be
RENTALS NORTHWEST, INC., an Oregon corporation; PLATT ELECTRIC
barred.
SUPPLY, INC., an Oregon corporation; CENTRAL OREGON
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL, an intergovernmental entity;
All persons whose
AMERITECH MACHINE MFG, INC., an Oregon corporation; and
rights may be affected by the pro- RONALD H. COOK, an individual; DESCHUTES COUNTY OF THE STATE
OF OREGON, a governmental entity; and GORDON W. WOOLSEY,
ceedings in the esan individual,
tate
may
obtain
Defendants.
additional information
from the records of
Case No.: 09CV0547ST
the court, the personal representative,
Notice is hereby given that I will on December 15, 2011, at 11:10a.m. in
or the attorney for the
the main lobby of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, 63333 W. Highpersonal representaway 20, Bend, Oregon, sell, at public oral auction to the highest bidder, for
tive, L. Thomas Clark,
cash or cashier's check, the following real property, further described in
at the address set
the attached Exhibit "A":
forth above.

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$12,500. 541-610-5885

NOTICE OF SALE
UNDER WRIT OF
EXECUTIONREAL PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given
that I will on January
12,
2012,
at
11:00a.m. in the main
lobby of the Deschutes
County
Sheriff's Office, 63333
W. Highway 20, Bend,
Oregon, sell, at public
oral auction to the
highest bidder, for
cash
or
cashier's
check, the following
real property, known
as 3672 SW 30th
Street, Redmond, Oregon 97756, to wit,
Lot Fifty (50), SUMMER CREEK PHASE
2, recorded June 11,
2004, in Cabinet G,
Page 305, Deschutes
County, Oregon
Said sale is made under a Writ of Execution issued out of the
Circuit Court of the
State of Oregon for
the County of Deschutes, dated November 1, 2011, to
me directed in the
above-entitled action
wherein PHH Mortgage Corporation as
plaintiff,
recovered
Stipulated
General
Judgment of Foreclosure
and
Money
Award on September
23, 2011, against Unknown Heirs of Wilda
June
Moore,
Deceased, Lin G. Moore
and Summer Creek
Homeowner's Association
as
defendant/s.
BEFORE BIDDING AT
THE SALE, A
PROSPECTIVE
BIDDER SHOULD
INDEPENDENTLY
INVESTIGATE:
(a)The priority of the
lien or interest of the
judgment creditor;
(b)Land use laws and
regulations applicable
to the property;
(c)Approved uses for
the property;
(d)Limits on farming
or forest practices on
the property;

833 SE 1st St. Redmond, Oregon 97756
Said sale is made under a Writ of Execution of Foreclosure of Real Property issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of
Deschutes, dated November 01, 2011, to me directed in the above-entitled action wherein Columbia State Bank as plaintiff, recovered General
Judgment and Money Award on October 13, 2011, against R&G Rentals
LLC, American Sprinklers, Inc., United Rentals Northwest, Inc., Platt Electric Supply, Inc., Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, Ameritech
Machine Mfg, Inc., Ronald H. Cook, and Gordon W. Woolsey as Defendants.
BEFORE BIDDING AT THE SALE, A PROSPECTIVE BIDDER SHOULD
INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE:
(a)The priority of the lien or interest of the judgment creditor;
(b)Land use laws and regulations applicable to the property;
(c)Approved uses for the property;
(d)Limits on farming or forest practices on the property;
(e)Rights of neighboring property owners; and
(f)Environmental laws and regulations that affect the property.
LARRY BLANTON
Deschutes County Sheriff

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: xxxxxx5611 T.S. No.: 1340852-09.
Reference is made to that certain deed made by Kimberly Strain and John
Strain II, as Grantor to Chicago Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, in
favor of National City Mortgage A Division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, dated February 19, 2008, recorded June 20, 2008, in official
records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx,
fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2008-26662 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
The land hereinafter described is situated in the County of Deschutes,
State of Oregon, and is described as follows: That portion of
Lots 16 and 17 in Block QQ, Deschutes River Woods,
Deschutes County, Oregon, described as follows:
Beginning at the Northwest corner of Lot 17, the true point of beginning;
thence South Along the West line of Lot 17, 30 feet; thence East 235 feet;
thence South 03 degrees 18'20" West 186.14 feet to the South line of
Lot 16; thence South 86 degrees 41'40" East along the South line of Lot 16,
165 feet to the East line of Lot 16; thence North 03 degrees 18 '20" East,
216.14 feet to the Northeast corner of Lot 17, thence West along the
North line of Lot 17, 400 feet to the point of Beginning. TAX ID: 110952
Commonly known as:
19244 Shoshone Rd Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real
property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised
Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Failure to pay the monthly payment due February 1, 2010 of principal,
interest and impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus
late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary
pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly
payment $1,780.39 Monthly Late Charge $79.13. By this reason of said
default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed
of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit; The sum of $264,251.08 together with interest thereon at 5.750%
per annum from January 01, 2010 until paid; plus all accrued late charges
thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance
by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of
trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance
Corporation the undersigned trustee will on February 21, 2012 at the hour
of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County
Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of
Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in
the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to
convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together
with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations
thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person
named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have
the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such
portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default
occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing
any other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the
performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior
to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the
masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance
of which is secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and
"beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
October 12, 2011. Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main
Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon
CA
92022-9004 Cal-Western
Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird
R-394355 11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/07
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Case No.: 11CV0136MA
NOTICE OF SALE
UNDER AMENDED WRIT OF EXECUTION IN FORECLOSURE

Published in Bend Bulletin
Date of First and Successive
Publications:November 16, 2011;November 23, 2011;November 30, 2011
Date of Last Publication December 07, 2011
Attorney:Shannon Raye Martinez, OSB #034276
Saalfeld Griggs PC
P.O. Box 470
Salem, OR 97308-0470
Conditions of Sale: Only U.S. currency and/or cashier's checks made
payable to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office will be accepted. Payment
must be made in full immediately upon the close of the sale.
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LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON
DESCHUTES COUNTY
ARNOLD IRRIGATION DISTRICT,
Plaintiff,
v.
RANDALL LUCAS and MARTHA LUCAS husband and wife;
VERICREST FINANCIAL, INC., a Delaware corporation, and the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, acting by and through its agency,
the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE,
Defendant/s.

Notice is hereby given that I will on January 5, 2012, at 11:30a.m. in the
main lobby of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, 63333 W. Highway
20, Bend, Oregon, sell, at public oral auction to the highest bidder, for
cash or cashier's check, the following real property known as,
Lot 1, Block 4, ROBERTS ADDITION TO REDMOND, TOGETHER WITH
Lot 1 of a replat of Lot 1, Block 2 of RIMROCK ACRES, Deschutes
County, Oregon
Said sale is made under an Amended Writ of Execution in Foreclosure issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Deschutes, dated November 18, 2011, to me directed in the above-entitled
action wherein Sandra Kilanderas plaintiff, recovered Stipulated Limited
Judgment on October 18, 2011, against Whistler Dev, LLC, aka Whistler
Development, LLC, and John Pewther as defendant/s.
BEFORE BIDDING AT THE SALE, A PROSPECTIVE BIDDER
SHOULD INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE:
(a)The priority of the lien or interest of the judgment creditor;
(b)Land use laws and regulations applicable to the property;
(c)Approved uses for the property;
(d)Limits on farming or forest practices on the property;
(e)Rights of neighboring property owners; and
(f)Environmental laws and regulations that affect the property.
LARRY BLANTON
Deschutes County Sheriff

Case No.: CV101963

Steven Binstock, Reserve Deputy Sheriff
Date: November 30, 2011

NOTICE OF SALE
UNDER WRIT OF EXECUTIONREAL PROPERTY

Published in Bend Bulletin
Date of First and Successive
Publications:December 7, 2011;December 14, 2011;December 21, 2011
Date of Last Publication December 28, 2011

Notice is hereby given that I will on January 5, 2012, at 11:15 a.m. in the
main lobby of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, 63333 W. Highway
20, Bend, Oregon, sell, at public oral auction to the highest bidder, for
cash or cashier's check, the following real property, known as 60540 Billadeau Road, Bend, Oregon 97702, to wit,
The East Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter (E1/2 NE1/4 NW1/4 SW1/4) of Section 19, Township
18 South, Range 13 East of the Willamette Meridian, Deschutes County,
Oregon. EXCEPTING THEREFROM the North 10 feet. Tax Map Number
18-13-19-00-01100.
Said sale is made under a Writ of Execution issued out of the Circuit Court
of the State of Oregon for the County of Deschutes, dated November 18,
2011, to me directed in the above-entitled action wherein Arnold Irrigation
District as plaintiff, recovered General Judgment and Money Award on
May 12, 2011, against Randall Lucas and Martha Lucas as defendant/s.

Attorney:Edward P. Fitch, OSB #78202
Bryant Emerson & Fitch, LLP
888 SW Evergreen Avenue
Redmond, OR 97756
(541) 548-2151
Conditions of Sale: Only U.S. currency and/or cashier's checks made
payable to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office will be accepted. Payment
must be made in full immediately upon the close of the sale.

BEFORE BIDDING AT THE SALE, A PROSPECTIVE BIDDER
SHOULD INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE:
(a)The priority of the lien or interest of the judgment creditor;
(b)Land use laws and regulations applicable to the property;
(c)Approved uses for the property;
(d)Limits on farming or forest practices on the property;
(e)Rights of neighboring property owners; and
(f)Environmental laws and regulations that affect the property.
LARRY BLANTON
Deschutes County Sheriff
Anthony Raguine, Civil Technician
Date: December 1, 2011
Published in Bend Bulletin
Date of First and Successive
Publications:December 7, 2011;December 14, 2011;December 21, 2011
Date of Last Publication December 28, 2011
Attorney:Mark G. Reinecke, OSB #914073
Bryant, Lovlien& Jarvis, PC
591 SW Mill View Way
Bend, OR 97702
(541) 382-4331
Conditions of Sale: Bidder's funds will be reviewed by Deschutes County
Sheriff's Office prior to the auction. Only U.S. currency and/or cashier's
checks made payable to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office will be accepted. Payment must be made in full immediately upon the close of the
sale.